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CLASS OF 1868 



HAMILTON COLLEGE 



FIFTIETH REUNION 



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CLASS OF 1868 



HAMILTON COLLEGE 

FIFTIETH REUNION 

JUNE H, 1918 



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CLASS OF 1868, HAMILTON COLLEGE 



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Charles Aldrich January, 28, 1847 — January 11, 1912 

Charles Baldrey Austin January 20, 1848 — 

Charles Densmore Barrows Dec. 15, 1900 

John Hiram Blore March 14, 1842— October 18, 1865 

Frederick Winston Canfield — September 23, 1865 

Frank Earl Childs 

William Heermans Clark August 12, 1848 — 

Samuel Byron Collins 1901 

Alfred Conkling Coxe 

Henry Everett Case Daniels June 15, 1846— August 31, 1917 

Cassius Horatio Dibble June 21, 1845 — 

George Washington Dillow August 27, 1847 — July 13, 1915 

Otis Judd Eddy June 30, 1846— 

Charles Gardner Egert — June 26, 1902 

Daniel Finn November 9, 1843 — June 23, 1905 

Charles Bennett Germain November 11, 1844 — 

Henry Tifft Glover October 6, 1843— March 29, 1918 

Seabury Smith Gould December 10, 1848 — 

John Dryden Henderson July 13, 1846— May 3, 1910 

Charles Francis Janes August 7, 1847 — December 4, 1901 

William Reid Jerome April 19, 1848— August 28, 1888 

Frank Hoard 1885 

Frank Alonzo Johnson April 26, 1845 — November 12, 1917 

Israel Greene Johnson December 28, 1843 — September 5, 1915 

William John Jones March 4, 1843 — February 22, 1913 

Eben Winslow Judson February 21, 1845 — April 7, 1890 

John Henry Knox August 31, 1848— July 6, 1910 

William Townsend Laird August 2, 1846— October 7, 1899 

James Weatherby Lawrence 

William Henry Lewis February 2, 1843 — March 15, 1865 

Roderick Morrison Loomis 1916 

Joseph Addison Marshall February 21, 1846 — February 13, 1911 

William Howell Masters February 18, 1847 — November 16, 1904 

Martin VanBuren McGraw ' 1843— April 26, 1912 

George Edward McMaster. November 5, 1849 — November 26, 1880 

Martin Rumsey Miller April 24, 1848— July 2, 1905 

Edwin Mills Nelson November 18, 1847— September 20, 1910 

Albert Eugene Pattison February 10, 1846— August 12, 1902 

Henry Nelson Payne November 4, 1840 — July 9, 1903 

Louis Dwight Pomeroy May 3, 1846— April 4, 1871 

Frank Rice .January 15, 1845 — December 5, 1914 

Frank Earl Richmond 

Albert Barnes Robinson 

Norman Prentice Sackrider April 2, 1847 — 1881 

Charles Hamilton Sedgwick May 22, 1847— 

George Niver Snyder March 27, 1844 — November 2, 1872 

David Sanford Truman . 

Henry Randall Waite December 16, 1846— May 5, 1909 

James Hazleton Willard April 1, 1848— April 16, 1901 

Myron Gilbert Willard October 23, 1842— 

John Hamilton Wilson 



DECEASED MEMBERS OF '68 



Dates of Deaths 

Aldrich, Charles January 11, 1912 

Daniels, Henry Everett Case August 31, 1917 

Dillow, George Morris July 13, 1915 

Egert, Charles Gardner June 26, 1902 

Finn, Daniel June 23, 1905 

Glover, Henry Tifft March 29, 1918 

Henderson, John Dryden May 3, 1910 

Janes, Charles Francis December 4, 1901 

Jerome, William Reed September 26, 1888 

Johnson, Frank Alonzo November 12, 1917 

Jones, William John February 22, 1913 

Judson, Eben Winslow April 7, 1890 

Knox, John Henry July 6, 1910 

Laird, William Townsend October 7, 1899 

McMaster, George Edward ." . November 26, 1880 

Marshall, Joseph Addison February 13, 1911 

Masters, William Howell November 16, 1904 

Miller, Martin Rumsey July 2, 1905 

Nelson, Edwin Mills September 20, 1910 

Pattison, Albert Eugene August 12, 1902 

Payne, Henry Nelson July 9, 1903 

Pomeroy, Louis Dwight April 4, 1871 

Rice, Frank December 5, 1914 

Sackrider, Norman Prentice 1881 

Snyder, George Niver November 2, 1872 

Waite, Henry Randall May 5, 1909 

Willard, James Hazelton .April 16, 1901 

MEMBERS OF '68 NOW LIVING 

Austin, Charles Baldrey Toms River, 'N. J. 

Child's, Frank E.r ...Pontiac, Mich.. 

Coxe, Alfred Conklin 112 West 56th Street, New York, N. Y. 

Dibble, Cassius Horatio Perry, N. Y. 

Eddy, Otis J 3300 16th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Germain, Charles B.. . D. S. Morgan Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Gould, Seabury S Seneca Fails, N. Y. 

Lawrence, James W 918 Seneca Street, Santa Monica, Cal. 

Richmond, Frank E 1241 Fourth Street, New Orleans, La. 

Robinson, Albert B Steinway Hall, New York, N. Y. 

Sedgwick, Charles H. Park Avenue Hotel, New York, N. Y. 

Willard, Myron G Mankato, Minn. 

Wilson, John H 304 N. James Street, Rome, N. Y. 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS OF '68 

Died. 

Blore, John Hiram October 18, 1865 

Canfield, Frederick Wiasted 1865 

Clark, William Heermans, Cortland, N. Y., Union College, '68 

Collins, Samuel Byron 1901 

Hoard, Frank 1885 

Johnson, Israel Greene 1915 

Lewis, William Henry 1865 

Truman, David Sanford 

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CLASS OF 1868 

Hamilton College, Fiftieth Reunion 



The Fiftieth Reunion of the class of 1868, Hamilton College, was held 
at Clinton, N. Y., Saturday, June 22, 1918. 

Only two of the graduate members of the class, Dibble and Austin, 
turned up at the class reunion held in a chapel pew near the entrance, but 
we had a most fortunate find — this was Mr. W. H. Clark, who spent sophomore 
year with us, then left for Union College, Schenectady, and on his return 
from his reunion there tarried at Clinton and joined the conference. He did 
much to save the situation. It was recalled how deep the regret was at the 
time he severed his connection with the class, and he was at once re-elected 
to his old position. After a couple of hours' conference, during which the 
letters were read and memories recalled, it was his suggestion that this 
memorial be printed, and by his generosity it was made possible. 

One of the incidents in Mr. Clark's Hamilton career was recalled. It was 
on the evening when a plot was formed to play a practical joke upon the 
Anderson ladies who lived in the home at the top of Junior' Hill, when mem- 
bers of '68 rushed him as though he were of the freshman class. Then, with 
the loud cries of their victim for help, followed by the rush of many feet, 
the door of the Anderson home was suddenly swung open, and the ladies, who 
had their sympathies enlisted on behalf of freshmen, offered him a place of 
refuge. 

After the wicked sophomores had dispersed, the sympathetic .ladies let 
him out of the back door and he took a bee line for the college. The next 
Sunday, when they attended services at the chapel and saw him enter and 
take a seat with the sophomores, one of them, furious at having been hoaxed, 
rose and shook her fist at him. 

Perhaps this circumstance had its influence, for Mr. Clark turned to a 
newspaper career and is now head of a daily paper, The Cortland Standard, 
of Cortland, N. Y., and also of The Norwich Daily Sun, of Norwich, N. Y. 
The lesson of that memorable evening was, when you run out of "copy," go 
out and "start something." 

John H. Wilson contributed to the reunion a poem, "The Class of '68," 
which is included in this memorial. Mr. Wilson's reputation as a humorist 
' still survives. It was recalled how in sophomore year, in the Greek class, 
where the translation of the words of a lover in ecstasy over the loveliness 
of his sweetheart was, "May your mouth be filled with honey and the honey- 
comb," Mr. Wilson rendered it, "May your mouth be filled with honey and 
bees-wax." Professor North almost tumbled off his chair. This was only 
equaled by Wilson's translation of the opening words of Demosthenes' Ora- 
tion on the Crown: "First of all I invoke all the gods, both the he-gods and 
the she-gods." The effect of this on professor and class may be imagined. 

Seabury S. Gould sent, in his letter, select gems of poetry and prose which 
we accept as setting forth his philosophy and outlook. Though he had no 
expectation that they would be used here, the fact that following a successful 
business career for many years in manufacturing he has been for twelve 
years past in a sanitarium in Auburn, is reason sufficient for us to incorporate 
them in this souvenir. 

The losses of '68 by death during 1917-18 were serious. Mr. H. E. O. 
Daniels died in August of typhoid fever following the death of his wife a few 
days earlier. On November 12 the second secretary of the class, Rev. Frank 
A. Johnson, pastor for many years at New Milford, Conn., and who had fol- 
lowed Henry R. Waite, the first secretary, passed away. On March 29th, 1918, 
Mr. Glover died in Chicago. The two first mentioned were more frequently 
seen on the hill during commencement seasons probably, with a possible 
exception of Henderson, than the rest of the class of '68. 

The two secretaries, Henry R. Waite and Frank A. Johnson, served the 
class respectively forty-one and nine years. They were well qualified for 
the position, for both were possessed of a warm-hearted class feeling. How 
we missed them on June 1ft 



Expressions of sympathy were voiced in behalf of Mrs. Frank A. Johnson, 
the two daughters of H. E. C. Daniels, Miss Hattie Daniels of Clinton and 
Mrs. Schenck of New York and for Myron G. Willard, whose wife passed 
away in January 1918, mourned and honored by a large circle of friends. 

A letter from Mrs. F. A. Johnson, of Aug. 20, 1918, says: 
"Please accept many thanks for your good letter. I appreciate greatly 
the message from the members of the class present. It is such a happiness 
to have my husband so remembered and esteemed by his classmates after 
all the years; and surely the expression of sympathy for me in my great loss 
touched my heart. Yes, indeed, Frank would have been with you had life and 
health been spared — not one would have enjoyed it more. He had such a 
warm, loyal heart. My best love to all the class, would be his message now. 

Very sincerely, 

MRS. FRANK A. JOHNSON." 

CASSIUS H. DIBBLE, ANNALIST 

Utica Daily Press, June 17, 1918. 
"Rev. Cassius H. Dibble, '68, of Perry, N. Y., read the half century 
annalist letter which was of more than usual interest and was very well 
received." 

Read the Annalist paper, which, because of historical and class interest, 
forms part of this memorial, and you will understand why it was that essay 
prizes went to Dibble in his college course. 



SECRETARIAL NOTES 



ELECTION OF SECRETARY 

Absent and not voting, eleven. Present, two; vote, one. Ballot box was 
stuffed by clerk's vote, after the polls closed and without his knowledge. 

Recount, Austin, two. Had he voted for himself, it would have been a 
landslide but the fear of exposure unnerved him. 

ON THE HILL 

On the hill, the weight of the war evidently bore down upon the students, 
Alumni and visitors during the week, especially in the presence of the gaps in 
the ranks of the students of the upper classes. A large percentage of them 
were absent, on the front or on the way there, including the Valedictorian and 
Salutatorian of the 1918 class. Of the graduates and under-graduates of the 
college, 400 are in the service of their country, and for five men already the 
glory of their supreme sacrifice is flashed forth in the new constellation of 
golden stars. 

During Commencement the hospitable home of Dr. and Mrs. Edward 
Fitch was opened to the entertainment of the half-century annalist, Cassius H. 
Dibble and of Miss Anna Dibble, his daughter; also by extension of grace the 
latest secretary of '68, Charles B. Austin, was admitted to the charmed circle. 
The home of Dr. Fitch crowns Freshman Hill, as the home of that other 
beloved Greek professor, Dr. Edward North, crowns Sophomore Hill. 

The new president, Dr. Frederick C. Ferry, has justified his election 10 
office by his first year of service. He is a strong and genial personality, who 
has quickly become the efficient and popular head of Hamilton College. 

The class tree, a white oak, has attained goodly proportions and has a 
sturdy appearance with few marks of old age. Its appearance harmonizes 
with the inscription which is still clear cut though the stone is somewhat 
sunken, the edges being overlapped by sod and requiring re-setting soon, or 
Childs' pleasantry, "to hunt and find the class tree," will be a painful fact. 
May its inscription prove a prophetic realization for all who yet occupy the 
near side of the unknown, "Truth and Victory." 

THE CHAPEL 

Classes come and go but the Chapel holds its own, the pivot and hinge 
of the college buildings. It is transformed inside, the interior a triumph of 
art, and reminds one of things other than class rows and declamation con- 
tests. The faces of presidents, professors and others familiar to the classes 
of half a century and more ago, are preserved as fitting center-pieces in 
stained glass windows on the north and south sides of the chapel, above and 
below. They are treasures of art and they create a home-like feeling in the 
minds of old graduates. 

Clinton has changed, largely by what it has lost. The three young 
ladies' seminaries of yore, which furnished ambitious tenor and bass soloists 
such tempting fields for exercise on moonlight nights, together with two 
preparatory schools for boys, have all vanished. 

Some old land marks still remain. One is the stately residence of Mrs. 
O. S. Williams, now of venerable years, with whom lives one daughter, Mrs. 
A. G. Hopkins, the widow of "Grove" Hopkins as he is affectionately remem- 
bered by those who were in college with him and by those whom he afterward 
taught. Her daughter, Miss Mary D. Hopkins, also makes her home there; 
also Miss Harriet Daniels, daughter of our late classmate, H. E. C. Daniels. A 
double affliction visited this home in the death of Mrs. Daniels, August 12, 
1917, and soon after of Mr. Daniels, August 31st. A second daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Daniels is Mrs. Martha Schenck of New York. The class of 
'68 spent a delightful evening hour calling on these ladies. 

CHANGES DURING FIFTY YEARS 

Many changes have taken place on the hill during the past fifty years 
New, massive, costly and handsome buildings, the evolution of the twenty- 



five year term of the indefatigable and aesthetic president, Dr. M. W. Striker, 
crown that sacred acreage. 

The Commons Hall, largely the gift of Alexander Soper, of '67, after 
whom it is named, who is by service and gifts one of the most distinguished 
sons of the college, opened its hospitable doors to large crowds at the close 
of the commencement exercises. Floods of oratory were let loose as of yore. 
Governor Whitman being one of the speakers, and the deep bass of college 
songs roared like the breakers^ on the shores of the "high sounding sea." 

The new stone church, more stately and substantial in appearance than 
its predecessor destroyed by fire, is king of the old corner on the Clinton 
Square, and is the place of revival by memory of old events and scenes in 
days when the beauty of the seminaries and throngs of commencement 
visitors held autocratic sway. The long side galleries of the old church, for 
the seminaries on the one side and the college on the other, are wanting in 
the new. 

A well remembered land mark is the old road up the hill, especially be- 
tween Freshman hill and Senior hill; those indentations, breaks, cuts, curves, 
offsets and sharp edges are still there, not one of them is missing. 

Another land mark, the old Observatory, has vanished, but the massive 
stone which supported the telescope still stands. Let it stand, it is not un- 
sightly and is a reminder of the triumphs of science which shed renown 
upon Hamilton in the asteroid discoveries of Dr. Peters. One night the old 
astronomer, absorbed in the study of the heavens, and it may be listening 
to the music of the spheres, might be pardoned for the annoyance caused by 
serenading freshmen students when they broke up his meditation with some 
such overture as "Saw my leg off," and when he opened the window and 
called out, "Shut up, you tamn freshmen." The recording angel will blot 
this slip when it is remembered that he recognized the college in his will. 

THE STATUE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON 

The outstanding event of Commencement was the unveiling of the bronze 
statue of Alexander Hamilton, the gift of Thomas Redfield Proctor of the 
Board of Trustees. Addresses were made by President Frederick G. Ferry, 
who introduced Thomas R. Proctor, at the close of whose address he intro- 
duced Hon. Elihu Root, who delivered the unveiling address, of which it 
may be said that it was worthy of a place in the "Hall of Fame" of Mr. 
Root's masterpieces. The statue stands facing the chapel, fifty feet away, 
in a choice position, a noble elm on either side. The beholder is charmed 
and thrilled by the appearance of this work of art. The eyes and lips and 
every line of face and form are so life-like. There were three forms of 
eloquence set forth on this occasion; first, that of Mr. Root's address, the 
eloquence of thought and oratory; second, that of form and expression, for 
Mr. Brewster, the sculptor, made the dumb to speak; third, the eloquence of 
silence, for when he was introduced he arose, bowed, smiled and sat down; 
words under the circumstances being superfluous. Surely Hamilton main- 
tains her old reputation for the teaching of elocution — the art of speaking 
well. 

Mr. Root's closing words: "This granite may crumble, this bronze may 
corrode, this college may be dissolved; but the monument of its works will 
remain." 

After the address of Governor Whitman, which followed the commence- 
ment banquet, Henry Harper Benedict of '69, Dr. William M. Collier, '98, 
president-elect of George Washington University, and Senator Elihu Root 
delivered able addresses. 

To enrich these annals we quote a part of Mr. Root's address: 

"During all the years of my attendance on these commencement meet- 
ings, we have been speaking of great things that have been and useful things 
that were to be done. We are now confronted with the tests, the tests of 
the truth and sincerity of all we have said. It is the test of the real useful- 
ness, the ultimate worth of the work that has been done on this hill. From 
the battle lines in France and in Flanders where the boys whose merry voice:? 
made this hill ring are offering up their lives; in all the camps in this broad 
land where they are straining at the leash, eagerly looking for the orders 
that will take them within sound of the cannon; in a thousand towns and 
villages all over this vast land, the spirit of American ideals of justice and 
liberty and service to mankind is being inspired. The men with trained minds, 
the men who have learned the truth of life are meeting their test. The time 

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has come for effort; for the application of the power of the spirit, of char- 
acter, of sacrifice, of devotion. It has not all been a false appearance. It 
means this supreme test of service to civilization, to Christianity, to ideals 
of liberty, order, peace, nobility of manhood, this test that the rude pioneers 
met who felled the trees, split the shingles and raised the frame of the old 
Hamilton Oneida Academy. It means, that our country might meet this test, 
that the simple, pure and noble lives that brought the youth to this hillside 
were lived out in comparative poverty, and insignificance to the public eye, 
in laying the foundation of a great nation. But when we read the accounts 
of the terrible battles along the line in France, we are led to ask, where is 
the strategic reserve? Is it ready? Will it come? Is that wise, alert, ex- 
perienced soldier able not only to meet the shock of today, but to keep a 
strong reserve that will make civilization sure? It is not merely the boys 
who meet the shock of the firing line, but the reserves who are to follow them. 
No one can say how long it will be. There may be long years before us before 
this great question of civilization can be determined. The boys here are part 
of Foch's reserve. Wisdom, judgment, the power of self-restraint to wait till 
the time comes for the final settlement when all the spirit of the nation and all 
the men will be thrown into the balance, which meets the assault and meets 
death with a smile, — these are needed. God grant that in this test we may 
all have the strength and sincerity of purpose, the capacity for sacrifice and 
the high courage of our fathers so that we shall be worthy of those whose 
lives have already been laid on the altar of the country's life." 

THE FUTURE 

Will there be another reunion of '68? Why not? "You ask me why. 
I say T cannot tell.' " (Prof. Avery.) Let us make a try for it in 1919 or a 
year later. Two sentiments are in its favor. First, class feeling; second, 
loyalty to old Hamilton. At any rate let each member write a letter to the 
secretary early in 1919. He will reply promptly and report to each one 
items of news from the others; then there may arise a demand for another 
reunion. 

Let us remember such reunions are worth something to a college. They 
amount to a debt which can be discharged by full payment in person only. 



Greeting, and best wishes for each absentee! As it was, the reunion was 
a success. Had you all been present it would have been a triumphant con- 
summation. 



In the preparation of this pamphlet, thanks for valued assistance are 
due Mr. William H. Clark, Editor Daily Standard, Cortland, N. Y.; Dr. 
Edward Fitch and Mr. E. B. Mattoon, of Clinton, N. Y., and Rev. Cassius H. 
Dibble, of Perry, N. Y. 

CHARLES B. AUSTIN, Secretary, 

Toms River, N. J. 



LETTERS FROM MEMBERS OF 68 WHO WERE NOT 
PRESENT AT THE REUNION 



FROM FRANK E. CHILDS 

25 Howell Street, Pontiac, Mich. 
April 24, 1918. 
Rev. Charles B. Austin, 
Dear Classmate: 

Just received yours of 18th from Bay City. Yes, I intend to go and you 
may put me on the list of Scouts or Veterans of '68 who will try to hunt 
and find a class-tree, also to count noses and teeth if they have any left. 
Thanks for your kind letter. When I met you in Bay City I was badly run 
down in health. Went to a hospital for an operation, then got a better position 
as organist with three times the pay. [Aside: Might it not pay to try it 
again? Dibble.] After six years returned to Bay City and enjoyed fine health 
for a number of years. Had the old home remodeled at cost of $2,600 and 
everything was going smoothly until typhoid fever struck me about five years 
ago. Haven't tried to earn any money to speak of since. Sold all my pianos, 
let my daughter and five children move into my home and have been renting 
a little place here for two years, for my health. Live on a little hill with 
beautiful surroundings, meadows, woods, hills and everything that you like. 
Come and see us, unless you prefer to keep on getting older. In some re- 
spects my health has been better than at any time in my life. Your will- 
ingness to take the trouble to write to so many of '68 appeals to me. It is 
not one of the specified forms of charity enumerated by Paul but must come 
under the head of "Whatsoever is lovely." If you write again please let me 
know how many you think will be able to attend. I shall try not to pre- 
cipitate any quarrel when I get there but may have to put on the boxing 
gloves with one or two, a la Prof. Evans. * * * Later — 

My Dear Austin: 

Glad to get your nice letter — so far so good — but hold, perhaps I am ut- 
tering what the Irishman would call an honest lie, for really it makes my 
senile bones crack to hear, or infer from your letter, that Daniels and Janes 
and others are dead. In my last alumni catalogue I think I saw Rice's name. 
Dillow and Marshall I also supposed still living. 

Better is a little of '68 with contentment than great riches. Don't worry 
yourself about the gathering up of the fragments of people that, as Prof- 
Billy put it, wasted their time and father's money, and he might add, lost 
their pants in a chapel row. Think of the good things, how much you are 
indebted, for instance, to Peck's mechanics. * * * Drop me another line soon 
for I am getting lonesome on this hill at times. 

Fraternally yours, 

F. E. CHILDS. 



FROM ALFRED C. COXE 

•. 

(Alfred C. Coxe, Frank Rice and Albert Eugene Pattison are the only 
members of '68 who wore the ermine.) 

New York, April 20, 1918. 
My dear Austin: 

Yours of April 18th is before me. I wrote Prof. Shepard last autumn 
regretting my inability to be present at the coming Commencement. I 
should enjoy meeting the surviving members of the class of '68, but as you 
suggest, it is sad to remember how many have passed to the reward prom- 
ised to the pure in heart. Please give my kindest regards to the old boys 
who are present. Were it not for the dread of Hoover I would propose that 
our classmates, wherever they may be, drink a toast to the memory of '68. 

Sincerely. 

ALFRED C. COXE. 



FROM CASSIUS H. DIBBLE 

The Old Manse, Perry, N. Y. 
My Dear Austin, Secretary Class of '68: 

May the mantles of Waite and Johnson, together with a double portion 
of their spirit, rest upon the third secretary of the class of '68. 

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You ask for a half-century class letter. A country parson, living the 
simple life of his parish for forty-six years, resigning his charge for the 
relief of a long-suffering people sixteen years since, has little to report. 

He is thinking of old days on College Hill, he hears again the calling of 
the class roll — "Coxe, Daniels, Dibble" — one is taken, the others left. He is 
wondering whether he will be "called" loday, as he feels unready, but he is 
always ready for a game of ball. Coxe p., Sedgwick lb., Masters 2b., Miller 
~3b., Aldrich r. f., Sackrider 1. f., Lawrence c. f., Germain s. s., Dibble c. Four 
have made their last home run, five remain. 

The morses are fast gathering on the old manse, but there are some 
sources of pleasure yet left. 

"Old wood to burn! (in an old-fashioned fire-place.) 
Old wine to drink! (never a drop, by order of President), 
Old books to read! (tasted first on College Hill, best yet.) 
Old friends to trust! (the class of '68.") 
With greetings from a septuagenarian to the surviving septs of '68, 
I remain, 

Yours in the ever strengthening bonds of class friendship, 

C. H. DIBBLE. 



FROM OTIS J. EDDY 

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University Club of Washington, D. C. 
May 2nd, 1918. 
My dear Austin: 

My enjoyment in your letter of Ma3/~ 16th is much increased by the news 
of the preparation for the class reunion. There is much that draws me 
back to commencement at Hamilton next month, and the promise that I 
should meet a number of the old '68 class intensifies the desire, but for a 
later date I have a long trip in view and positively it will not be convenient 
to leave here until July. As you write, the return to our old college home 
would do us all good, chiefly I fancy by bringing back the days and feelings 
of our youth. We old fellows need and desire the blessings which we so 
little realized *or appreciated when young, when impulse often ruled and a 
sound night's sleep was sufficient to make us forget our worries or an- 
noyances. One of the charms of the college was the personal care and in- 
terest that many of the faculty showed regarding the student; few of us fail 
to remember the advice of dear old Professors North, Upson, Avery, and 
others, or the help and sympathy of some fellow student. It is this thought 
that makes me love the old days on the hill, and I fervently trust that the 
old custom has not passed with the changing years, for it is the best asset 
that a college can have. This is the feeling that brings alumni to commence- 
ment and reunion throughout the country. As men grow old they are apt 
to hold too tenaciously to the standards and habits that betoken self-interest, 
they do not make the effort to fill the places of friends who pass away. They 
lose interest in current affairs of the fast changing life which environs them, 
and before they are conscious of it the busy world floats away, passing the 
cynics unnoticed. From a western window of my home I look out upon the 
beautifully shaded ground of a noted senator, a gnarled old apple-tree is full 
of blossoms at the top only, not so abundant as in earlier years but yet evi- 
dencing vigor and enjoyment of sunshine. Now that in the tree symbolizes 
in a degree myself, and if you desire, you may tell my good old classmates" 1 
that my memories of the times when we were together are full of pleasant 
scenes which I sincerely regret that I cannot recall in person, as each caps 
the other's story at the coming Fiftieth Reunion. With most cordial per- 
sonal regards, I am, 

Yours always, 

OTIS J. EDDY. 

It is no betrayal of confidence to inform the class that Mr. Eddy has 
recently re-married. Long life, congratulations and best wishes! 



FROM CHARLES B. GERMAIN 

Buffalo, May 17th, 1918. 
Rev. Charles B. Austin, 
My dear Classmate: 

Yours of the 18th, ult. received. I have delayed replying as I was in 
hopes that I would be able to attend the reunion of my class, but you know 
that I am now an old man and do not feel equal to the journey or to the 

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excitement that the proceedings would cause. So, much to my regret, I am 
compelled to write that I shall not attend the re-union. I do not know the 
address of Henry T. Glover, other than what is stated in Hamilton College 
Bulletin of November, 1917, to wit, 562 Oakwood Building, Chicago, Illinois. 
With kind remembrances to you and the other classmates who may be at 
the reunion, I remain, 

Yours in the bonds of '68, 

CHARLES B. GERMAIN. 



FROM SEABURY S. GOULD 

Auburn, N. Y., April 26th, 1918. 
My dear Austin: 

Your kind letter of the 19th, addressed to Seneca Falls, has been for- 
warded to me. It would be the greatest pleasure imaginable to join you and 
the other '68 men, at their Fiftieth Reunion, but the fates will, I fear, deny 
me that great boon. I am a nerve cripple and I have been confined at a 
sanitarium for over twelve years, living a, sad, unfortunate life. If any 
printed details of the graduates present are issued, etc., I shall be pleased to 
be remembered by you. I remember C. B. A. very pleasantly, and in the roll- 
call, if I recall aright, you were the initial leader of the class, also in every 
good way and work. I am approaching seventy years in December, I have 
two sons in the army and one in congress, another is awaiting me in heaven, 
a most beautiful and captivating boy. In the business and banking and 
church experience of my early life my classmates would not be interested. 
The Gould's Manufacturing Company, Seneca Falls, is one of my monuments 
and a big one. I was vice-president of a National Bank and always in- 
terested in the Presbyterian church of which I have been long a poor member. 
I hope you may have a most delightful time of which I shall hope to hear 
with pleasure. Thanking you for having written to me, with. kind regards 
and best wishes. 

Very sincerely yours, 

SEABURY S. GOULD. 



FROM JAMES W. LAWRENCE 

917 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, Cal., 
June 3rd, 1918. 
Rev. Charles B. Austin, 

Toms River, N. J. 
Dear Mr. Austin: 

Your letters of April 19th and May 30th to my husband have both been 
received. Mr. Lawrence has been sick and confined to the house for more 
than a year and is unable even to answer your letter. Were he in his usual 
condition, he would have replied promptly to your first letter, as his feeling 
towards his classmates is most cordial, and I know that he would meet witn 
you all with very great pleasure. 

Very sincerely yours, 

MRS. JAMES W. LAWRENCE. 



FROM FRANK E. RICHMOND 

New Orleans Railway and Light Company, 

New Orleans, La. 
My dear Austin: 

Your cordial letter was received and enjoyed. I wish indeed that I could 
again see old Hamilton in your company but it is out of the question. I have 
not passed Mason and Dixon's line since 1893, nor for that matter, have I 
even approached it. I came to New Orleans to live in 1870 and since 1874 I 
have been with the New Orleans Gas and Light Company and their succes- 
sors, as above. For the most time previous I was employed in a bank. I 
raised a family of five daughters, three of them now living. They are all 
scattered so wide that I have never seen five of my thirteen grand-children 
and had but glimpses of the other eight. My second wife is still living and 
much interested in her only daughter, the wife of a West Point major now at 
Washington Barracks, expecting any day to move across. Thirteen seems 
a small remainder for 1868, but probably not unusual for fifty years of wear 
and tear. May your reunion prove a joy to all, in spite of the empty places. 

Sincerely, 

F. E. RICHMOND. 

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FROM ALBERT B. ROBINSON 

Bureau of University Travel, 
Steinway Hall, New York City. 
Rev. Dr. C. B. Austin, 
Toms River, N. J. 

My dear Classmate: 

I am pleased to know that we have a secretary. Since the coming an- 
niversary is the only one of its kind which we shall ever celebrate, every 
member of '68 should be on hand, if possible. There is, however, not much 
hope in my case. Mrs. Robinson is slowly recovering from nervous pros- 
tration and I never leave her at night, but I will write a letter, and I wish it 
might be possible to secure a very full report in detail of the proceedings 
that might be sent to those unable to be present. Hoping to meet you. some 
time. 

Cordially yours, 

ALBERT B. ROBINSON. 



FROM CHARLES H. SEDGWICK 

The Pasadena, 
Detroit, April 24th, 1918. 
Rev. Charles B. Austin, 
Toms River, N. J. 

My dear Austin: 

You are a most worthy successor of a worthy class secretary and I con- 
gratulate you and the remnant of the class of '68. Think of it! Fifty years 
since I last saw you and yet your looks come to me most vividly, and I see 
you as you spoke upon the stage of that dear old church commencement 
day so long ago. I regret to say that I have kept in touch with a very few 
of our class since graduation. Of those living I have seen only two or three 
in the past twenty years since I came out to Detroit to live. In regard to 
my attending at our class reunion in June, it is simply a question of my 
physical ability to take the trip. It has been my habit for some years to 
spend my summers either in northern Ontario or at Mackinac in northern 
Michigan. I do this to avoid the tortures of hay fever. I had promised A. C. 
Soper, ('67) while in New York this last winter, that I should make every 
effort to go on to Clinton this summer and certainly will, if I can. However, 
present or absent, my class spirit will be there, and my heart will be singing 
the old songs we sang long, long ago. With class love and friendliness, 
I remain, as ever, 

Yours in the bonds of '68, 

CHARLES H. SEDGWICK. 
Mankato, Minn. 



FROM MYRON G. WILLARD 

A letter came from Mr. Willard expressing his great regret that he could 
not be present at the reunion and conveying his warm regards to his class- 
mates and best wishes for the success of the meeting. For a number of years 
past, Mr. Willard has been identified with the development of Lakeland, a 
beautiful interior city of Florida. As secretary of the board of trade he is 
conspicuous as one who refuses to grow too old for active business life. 



FROM JOHN H. WILSON 

Rome, N. Y., April 22nd, 1918. 
My dear Austin: 

Yours received. I have been thinking seriously of visiting the hill next 
Commencement. I think you can count on me to be there, if I am not drafted. 
I have not attended commencement since 1871. Our class is pretty well 
scattered, what there is left of us, and I presume there will not be a very 
full attendance. I was intending to put in my visit on. Monday, but if you 
have selected Saturday for the great event I shall switch. Hoping to see 
you and as many of the rest of the class as may see fit to be present, 
I remain, 

Yours for Auld Lang Syne, 

JOHN H. WILSON. 



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Before the above went to press, there came the announcement of the 
death of Mrs. John H. Wilson, wife of our classmate, of Rome, N. Y. Mrs. 
Wilson was married to Mr. Wilson in 1874, and since then they have lived in 
Rome. Besides the husband the following children survive: George H. Wil- 
son of Chicago, Miss Florence D: Wilson, Eugene D. and Thomas S. Wilson 
of Rome, and Mrs. Edward H. Walworth of Wilkinsburg, Pa. "Mrs. Wilson's 
life was a beautiful example, she was deeply devoted to her home life and 
loved ones with whom she found her greatest pleasure." We can assure Mr. 
Wilson of the profound sympathy of the class of '68. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 



Only nine of the living members of the Class of '68 responded to the re- 
quest for biographical sketches. 

CHARLES BALDREY AUSTIN 

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 20, 1848. The son of Charles Baldrey 
and Rebecca Snyder Austin. United with the Presbyterian Church at 13 
years of age and selected the Christian ministry as his life profession. Was 
tutored for college by Dr. De Benneville K. Ludwig. Entered the Class of '68 
and graduated with it. For a year after graduation he taught Classics and 
Elocution in the Ithaca, New York, Academy. Entered Union Seminary in 
'69 and graduated with the Class of '72. 

Was pastor or stated supply at Cohocton, N. Y.; New York Mills, N. Y.; 
Bismarck, N. D. ; Lewisburg, Pa.; Cleveland, Ohio; Vance Memorial Church, 
Wheeling, W. Va., and Toms River, N. J., during a ministry of forty years. 
Engaged in church building at Cohocton, New York Mills (where he wrote 
and published a history of the church), and at Bismarck. While at Bismarck 
elected to the presidency of Jamestown College; this was declined. During 
the pastorate at Toms River was invited to become head of the Deaconess' 
Home in Philadelphia. Did not accept of this position. In 1909 an attack of 
nervoin prostration was broken up by a trip to Egypt and the Holy Land. 
At the close of his active ministry he was elected Pastor Emeritus of Toms 
River church. During the war was the chairman of the safety committee of 
the town. Received the degree of D. D. from the Lafayette College in 
November 1898. "Was married to Lillie S. Mandeville, of Danby, N. Y., Oc- 
tober 2, 1872. This union was blessed by three sons and two daughters, 
Mrs. Edmund G. Tompkins, of Jackson, Mich; Charles B. Austin, Jr., of Dover, 
Ohio; Mrs. Clarence Heyward, of Washington, D. C; William M. Austin, of 
Lakewood, N. J.; Eugene H. Austin, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The grandchildren 
number ten, of whom nine are living. Thrice elected Commissioner to Gen- 
eral Assembly. The death of Mrs. Austin occurred January 26, 1915, after a 
life eminent in faithful service in home and church. 

Note. — A member of the class writes as follows of Dr. Austin, and the 
Assistant Secretary inserts it here. 

"Dr. Austin, as Pastor Emeritus, still abides with his own people, 
keeping open house and rejoicing in children and grandchildren. He serves 
occasionally as a supply for pulpits, is an acknowledged leader in every form 
of war work, has written popular patriotic verses and is, as herein appears, 
the very accomplished reporter of things past and present on College Hill, 
a rare combination of sense, wit and humor. Happy is the class that has 
so competent a secretary." 



FRANKLIN E. CHILDS 

Born at Syracuse, N. Y., October 16, 1848. His father, N. M. Childs, was 
a direct descendant of Sir John Childs, first Governor of India. N. M. 
Childs was superintendent of Oswego Canal until 1840. Afterward he engaged 
in manufacture of salt and other business activities until nearly 90 years of 
age, and was in 1855 president of the Board of Education at Syracuse. His 
son, after the graduation of Albany Law School, took charge of the books 
of an insurance company in New York for one year. He then became man- 
aging clerk for David W. Field, the well-known attorney of New York City 
and framer of the New York Code. In 1870, after three months' illness from 
malarial fever, he became a member of the firm of N. M. Childs & Son in 
Syracuse, and in 1876 of the firm of F. E. Childs & Co., at Bay City, Mich. 
He continued in the sale and rental of pianos for about fifteen years. He 
also organized and drilled choirs in various places in Michigan, besides ex- 
hibiting newly installed organs. Was at one time organist of the Park Pres- 
byterian and James Street Churches in Syracuse. Also organist and choir 
master of St. Andrews' Church in Rochester. Has trained many fine singers 
and organists of reputation throughout the country. 

Since an attack of typhoid fever about ten years ago he has been living 
quietly at home in Bay City. His present address is 25 Stowell Street, 
Pontiac, Michigan, where he thinks his health is improving. 



ALFRED C. COXE 

The only two events reported by Judge Coxe were his appointments by 
General Arthur and Colonel Roosevelt to the positions of U. S. District Judge 

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of New York and U. S. Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit. This gave him 
an experience and distinguished success for about thirty-five years on the 
Federal Bench. 



CASSIUS H. DIBBLE 
After graduation from college and three years' course in Auburn Theo- 
logical Seminary, he was for one year assistant pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at Waterloo, N. Y. He was then called to the Presbyterian Church 
at Perry, N. Y., and for thirty years this relation continued to the great 
upbuilding of the church and the satisfaction of the congregation. After his 
resignation, by the courtesy of the society, he has still made his home in 
the old Manse. He bears the title of Pastor Emeritus, though he declares 
he has never been able to discover what that means. He has enjoyed an 
extended trip abroad and added one more to the vain repetition of publishing 
"Letters from Foreign Lands." He has been interested in the control and 
contents of the Perry Public Library. The mistress of the Manse, of most 
blessed memory, passed on five years ago. She was the daughter of Prof. 
Condit, D. D., of Auburn Seminary. A devoted daughter, Miss Anna Dibble, 
makes a delightful home for her father. 



OTIS JUDD EDDY, M. D. 

Born at Ithaca, N. Y., June 30, 1846. Son of James and Maria Judd Eddy. 
Married Gertrude Phillips, of New Brunswick, N. J., October 10, 1877, who 
died February 6, 1906. 

Married Emma Rathbone Smith, May 20, 1913, in New York City. After 
graduation in medicine at Long Island College Hospital in 1870 entered upon 
active practice in U. S. Army and later in civil life in California. In the 
early Eighties was appointed Medical Examiner in the United States Bureau 
of Pensions. This position was held until August 1914, when he resigned. 

He still continues his residence in Washington, D. C. 



CHARLES BENNETT GERMAIN 
Was born in Buffalo, N. Y., November 11, 1844 (a grandson of Philander 
Bennett, Hamilton College, 1816). Prepared for college at Canandaigua 
Academy. Left Hamilton College November 1866, junior year. Studied law 
in Buffalo; was admitted to the bar May 4, 1868. Retired from the active 
practice of his profession February 20, 1884, when he was appointed by his 
classmate, Hon. Alfred C. Coxe, District Judge, Clerk of the United States 
District Court for the Northern District of New York, a position he held 
until July 7, 1900, when he resigned on account of ill health. Was married 
June 1, 1881, to Mary J. Begges, of Cleveland, Ohio, a relative of President 
Woodrow Wilson. He has two children, a daughter, Anna E. Germain, born 
October 14, 1883, now Mrs. George H. Waterman, of Chestnut Hill, Mass. A 
son, Edward Bennett Germain, was born June 2, 1890, who is now married 
and living at South Orange, N. J. He is general manager of the plants of 
the Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding Corporation located at Providence, R. I.; 
Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. Germain has been Secretary 
of the Buffalo Club, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Buffalo Orphan 
Asylum, a director of the Beaver Island Club, a Curator of the Buffalo His- 
torical Society, and a Vestryman of Trinity Church, Buffalo. 



SEABURY S. GOULD 

Was born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., December 10, 1848. He was educated 
in the public schools of the village and at Dwight's High School at Clinton, 
N. Y. Leaving this school, he entered Hamilton College, graduating from 
that institution in 1868. 

Immediately after leaving college Mr. Gould went to Williamsport, Pa., 
to oversee a blast furnace, which was the property of his father. It being 
found unprofitable to manufacture iron so far from the iron and coal inter- 
ests, the property was sold and Mr. Gould returned to Seneca Falls in 1872, 
when he entered the employ of The Goulds Manufacturing Company as its 
secretary. He continued in this relation to the company for many years, and 
upon the death of his father in 1886 he was elected Vice President of the 
company. That office he retained until 1896, when, upon the death of his 
brother, he was elected President of the company, the position he still 
occupies. 

While The Goulds Manufacturing Company has been successful in pre- 
vious years, its success has been none the less marked under the present 

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executive. It was under Mr. Gould's administration that The Goulds Manu- 
facturing Company took a new and radical departure, purchasing a large 
property in the western part of the village and thereon erecting an extensive 
and entirely distinct plant for the manufacture of its power pumps. Mr. 
Gould has always considered this decision on his part as probably the 
most important thing that has come into his business life. The development 
of the interests of The Goulds Manufac Luring Company has always been his 
constant and untiring aim and study, and his efforts, early and late, have 
been devoted to the furtherment of the best interests of the company. 

Mr. Gould is a man highly respected in the community and is worthy 
of trust and confidence in every walk and phase of life. He is Vice President 
of the Exchange National Bank. 

In 1908 Mr. Gould suffered from a derangement of his nerves, due to 
excessive business cares, and since that time has been living in a sanitarium 
at Auburn, N. Y. 

ALBERT BARNES ROBINSON 

A lineal descendant of John Robinson of Leyden; and through his grand- 
mother, Anna Weeks, wife of the Rev. Ralph Robinson, descended also from 
John Alden. 

His father, the Rev. Samuel Newell Robinson, was a Hamilton gradu- 
ate, class of 1841. 

Prepared for college in Oxford, New York. 

Principal of Rural Seminary, East Pembroke, N. Y., 1868-9. 

Then came three years of study at Auburn Theological Seminary, after 
which he was ordained — October 1872 — by the Presbytery of Otsego, and 
installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Unadilla, N. Y. 

This pastorate was followed by a few years of preaching in Tonawanda, 
N. Y., and Perrysburg, Ohio; and a pastorate of ten years in Gowanda, N. Y. 

In 1892 he was called to the Walden Avenue Presbyterian Church in 
Buffalo, N. Y., but two years later removed to Philadelphia and became one 
of the editors of the "Church at Home and Abroad," afterwards called the 
"Assembly Herald," the official magazine of the Presbyterian Church. 

After ten years of editorial work Mr. Robinson decided to engage in 
business. For five years he was secretary of the Art Organ Company in 
New York City. During the past eight years he has been in the employ 
of Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturers, and has also acted as secretary 
in New York for M. P. Moller, builder of pipe organs. But in addition to 
the activities of the week, he has preached here and there as supply more 
than three-fourths of the time since leaving Buffalo twenty-five years ago. 

Mr. Robinson was married May 30, 1872, to Ruth Eliza Bronson Cotes, 
who died January 22, 1919. Their children are Mrs. Ernest Newton Billard 
of Asheville, N. C, and Mr. Karl Davie Robinson of New York City. 



CHARLES H. SEDGWICK 

Born in Syracuse, N. Y., May 22, 1846. Attended various boarding schools 
in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Prepared for Harvard College, Class 
of '66, at the private boarding school of Dr. David Mack, of Belmont, near 
Boston. The Civil War diverted him from college life and he received an 
appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy in August 1862. Entered the Naval 
Academy and remained there for fifteen months, when he sought active 
-service and received an appointment as clerk under Admiral D. D. Porter 
on the Mississippi Squadron. Was on board the Flagship U. S. S. Black 
Hawk with Porter on the second Red River expedition. While on furlough 
visited at Clinton at the college commencement in 1864, was induced to try 
examinations, which he did, and entered the Class of 1868. After graduation 
studied law in the offices of Sedgwick, Andrews & Kennedy, in Syracuse, 
N. Y. Was admitted to the bar in May 1869. Was admitted to the firm of 
Sedgwick, Kennedy & Tracey in the winter of 1870. In 1874 went West and 
settled in Omaha, Neb. Was elected County Judge in Omaha in November 
1875. Filled out term of office and then returned with family to Syracuse, 
where he practiced law until 1901, when he went to Detroit, Mich., and 
entered the employ of Solvay Process Company, with whom he remained 
sixteen years, retiring in June 1917. Was then attorney of the Welfare and 
Safety Department in that company. From 1884 to 1887 was librarian of 
the Court of Appeals Library at Syracuse, N. Y. In January 1893 Mr. Sedge- 
wick received the appointment of First Assistant District Attorney at same 
place and served one year. He married Marcia Fenton, of Syracuse, March 

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17, 1871. Had five children, four girls and one boy. Three of the children 
survive, all of whom are married, namely, Mrs. Charles G. Herbert, Mrs. 
S. D. Ward, Mrs. Harry D. Bruce. The first wife died in May 1892. Married 
Carrie Ferguson, of Syracuse, N. Y., August 1901. She is still alive; has had 
no children. He resides at Park Avenue Hotel, New York City, winters, and 
at Goderich, Ontario, in the summer. 



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NON GRADUATE MEMBERS OF '68 



WILLIAM HEERMANS CLARK 

We copy the following concerning Mr. Clark from "Who's Who in 
America": 

"CLARK, William Heermans, editor. Born at Lyons, Wayne Co., 
N. Y., Aug. 12, 1848; Hamilton College, 1865-6; A. B. Union Col- 
lege, 1868, A. M., 1871; married Helen Street (daughter of Rev. 
Thomas Street, D. D.), of Cortland, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1879. Admitted 
to bar, 1869; practiced at Lyons, N. Y., 1869-76; purchased Cort- 
land Standard, 1876; president Cortland Standard Printing Co., 
Norwich Publishing Co.; member New York Assembly, 1875; 
member Republican State Committee, 1880-1; president local 
board of managers, State Normal and Training School, Cortland; 
postmaster of Cortland, 1911-15; president New York Press As- 
sociation, 1890; New York Associated Dailies, 1902; member Phi 
Beta Kappa." 

Mr. Clark has also served as chairman of the Third, Fourth and Fifth 
Liberty Loan organizations for Cortland County. 

He has one son and two daughters living. His older son died, after 
graduating with high honors at Princeton, in his first year at Harvard Uni- 
versity Law School. His younger son, a graduate of Cornell, is with his 
father in business at Cortland. His older daughter is married to Prof. Alex. 
J. Inglis of Harvard University. His younger daughter, a graduate of Vassar 
and for some time an assistant professor in Psychology there, resigned in 
order to enter war work, and is now with the Y. M. C. A. in France. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS 



CHARLES ALDRICH 

Charles Aldrich was born in Palmyra, N. Y., on January 28, 1847, and 
prepared for college at the Union School in that town. After his graduation 
he began the study of law there, but went to New York in September 1869 
and finished his law course in the office of the Hon. Stewart L. Woodford, 
being admitted to the bar in the spring of 1870. In the summer of 1871 he 
accepted a position with the United States Express company, and remained 
there, being connected with their main office in New York, and agent at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., until April, 1887, when he went West and established a 
roofing company at St. Louis. Mr. Aldrich was president of the company 
from its organization. By 1893 he had established another house at Cincin- 
nati. He was married to Minnie H. Thayer of Brooklyn, N. Y., in May 
1874. He died in St. Louis on January 11, 1912. 

Written for this record. 



CHARLES DENSMORE BARROWS 

Remembered for the "smiling eyes" and mellow voice, spent one year 
with the Class of '68, at the end of which he left college, returning to graduate 
with the Class of '69. He studied law and practiced for a time in the city 
of New York, where he married. Later he studied theology at Auburn 
Theological Seminary, entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and 
was pastor over churches in Oswego, Jamestown and other places. Notwith- 
standing the fact that ill health continually interfered with his plans, Bar- 
rows' work was attended by notable sucess. He died Dec. 15, 1900. 



JOHN HIRAM BLQRE 

John Hiram Blore, son of Marcia A. Shaw Blore and Isaac Blore, was 
born in Butternuts, Otsego County, N. Y., March 14, 1842. He lived on a 
farm with his parents and attended the district school until he entered the 
Gilbertsville Academy, which was two miles from his home. His training 
from infancy was of a religious nature, his parents being devoted Christians. 
He became a member of the Presbyterian Church at fourteen years of age 
and lived a consistent Christian life. He was particularly useful among his 
schoolmates, some of whom attribute their conversion to his example and 
influence. He was superintendent of a mission Sabbath School near his 
home. For several years it was his ambition to obtain a liberal education, 
and he entered Hamilton College in the autumn of 1864. His death occurred 
October 18, 1865, and he was buried in the college cemetery. His classmates 
testified their regard for him in resolutions adopted and which provided 
for the erection of a monument to his memory. Mr. Blore's father, while 
appreciating this considerate purpose, himself erected a plain monument over 
his grave. 

Information from sister's letter. 



FREDERICK WINSTON CANFIELD 

Frederick Winston Canfield, son of the Rev. Doctor Canfield, pastor of 
the First Presbyterian Church of Syracuse, N. Y., was prepared for college 
in Syracuse, and died at his home in that city on September 23, 1865. He 
was never of robust constitution and was in ill health for some time before 
his death. He was with the Class of 1868 during Freshman year. Mr. 
Canfield was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. 



SAMUEL BYRON COLLINS 

Samuel Byron Collins entered the Class of 1868 during Sophomore year. 
He remained one year and then entered the University of Rochester, gradu- 
ating from there with the Class of 1868. He was a member of Psi Upsilon. 
He was engaged in the commission business at the family home in Parma, 
N. Y., until his death in 1901. 



HENRY EVERETT CASE DANIELS 
Henry Everett Case Daniels, son of the late John H. Daniels, '45, was 
born in Cayuga, N. Y., June 15, 1846. In his boyhood he removed with his 

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parents to the Middle West and entered college from Wilmington, 111. After 
graduation in 1868 he engaged in the banking business in Wilmington. June 
30, 1869, he married Minnie, daughter of Judge O. S. Williams, '31, of Clin- 
ton, N. Y. In 1872 he removed to Chicago and entered the lumber manu- 
facturing business. In 1878 he became teller in the United States Sub- 
Treasury in Chicago. Later, he wan secretary and treasurer of the Thomas 
Kane & Company corporation, and in recent years he had been engaged in 
business in Northville and Detroit, Mich. In the summer of 1917 Mr. and 
Mrs. Daniels sold their Detroit home and came to Clinton to live. Only a 
few weeks later, August 12, Mrs. Daniels died of an insidious form of typhoid 
fever, and Mr. Daniels succumbed to the same disease on August 31, 1917. 
Mr. and Mrs. Daniels were faithful members of the Jefferson Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church of Detroit. Mr. Daniels was a member of the Alpha Delta 
Phi Fraternity and was long identified with movements looking to the uplift 
of the college from which he was graduated and the community in which he 
lived. He is survived by two daughters, Miss Harriet McD. Daniels and 
Mrs. Martin Schenck of New York City; a brother, Frank B. Daniels, '71, of 
Minneapolis, Minn., and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Green. 

Hamilton College Bulletin, April 1918. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON DILLOW 

George Washington Dillow was born in Clinton, N. Y., on August 27, 
1847, and died in New York City on July 13, 1915. After graduating from 
college he taught in the Clinton Liberal Institute for one year. At the end 
of the year he resigned, intending to pursue medical studies in New York, 
but not finding an opening for support, he secured a position as teacher in 
the Poughkeepsie Military Institute for the year 1869-70. In the summer of 
1870 he secured classes in science and history in schools for young ladies 
in New York while pursuing studies in the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, from which he graduated in 1875. He was both resident physician 
and attending physician to the Hahnemann Hospital of New York for several 
years. In 1884 he was made a professor in the New York Homoeopathic Col- 
lege and Hospital. In 1882-84 he was Vice-President of the New York County 
Homoeopathic Medical Society, and in 1885, its President. In 1890 he was 
made President of the New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society. Dur- 
ing this time the society secured the passage of the law creating a State 
Board of Examiners for license to practice medicine within this State. He 
framed the essential provisions of this law for which he had always fought. 
He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 



CHARLES GARDNER EGERT 
Charles Gardner Egert was born in Ogdensburg. After graduating from 
college in 1868 he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Schenectady 
in 1869, but did not enter upon the practice of this profession. For a few 
years he was the manager of Charles G. Egert's Business College, which had 
branches in Ogdensburg, Yonkers and Syracuse. He finally took an ex- 
tensive trip in Europe and on his return he opened the banking house of 
Egert & Company in Ogdensburg. During this period he was Alderman for 
three years, Supervisor for two years, besides holding a number of other 
political positions, which he filled with the highest credit. In 1873 he was 
married to Mary E. Perkins, of Athens, Pa. Mr. Egert died in Ogdensburg 
on June 26, 1902. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. 

DANIEL FINN 
Daniel Finn, a son of William Finn and Frances Halsey Finn, was born 
at Westfield, N. Y., on November 9, 1843. He received his college prepara- 
tion at Florida, N. Y. After leaving college he studied law and was admitted 
to the bar in 1870. He began his practice at Middletown, N. Y., on March 
6, 1871, where he followed that profession until his death on June 23, 1905. 
Mr. Finn was married in October 1874 to Clara Slawson. His son, Frank H. 
Finn, graduated from Hamilton in the Class of 1898. Both were members 
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. 



HENRY TIFFT GLOVER 

Henry Tifft Glover, brother of the late Otis R. Glover, '69, was born in 
Ottawa, 111., October 6, 1843. He was graduated from Hamilton College in 
1868 and was a member of the Sigma Phi Society. The two years following 

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his graduation were spent in Ottawa. In 1870 he began the practice of law 
in Chicago, in which he was engaged until the time of his death. During 
President Grant's second term he was Assistant United States District At- 
torney under his father, Joseph Glover. Henry T. Glover never married. 
He died at his home in Chicago after a week's illness due to toxic poisoning, 
March 29, 1918. He was a man of lovable character. His gentleness and 
kindness to all commended him to every one who came in contact with him. 
The surviving members of his immediate family are Miss Jeannette Camp- 
bell and Mrs. Howard Chapelle, both of New York City, the daughters of his 
late sister. 

Dr. Edward Fitch. 
Dear Sir: 

In answer to your question regarding Mr. Glover's life, I am able to give 
you the following facts: Mr. Glover was born at Ottawa, 111., October 6, 1843; 
he practiced law until the time of his death. During President Grant's last 
term of office Mr. Glover was assistant state's district attorney under his 
father, Joseph Glover. Henry Glover never married. The surviving mem- 
bers of his family are the daughters of his late sister, Miss Jeannette Camp- 
bell and Mrs. Howard Chapelle, both of New York City. Henry T. Glover 
died at his home in Chicago, 564 Oakwood Boulevard, on the 29th of March, 
1918. He was a man whom to know was to love; his gentleness and kindness 
to all commended him to every one who came in contact with him. The 
cause of his death was directly due to toxic poisoning. His funeral services 
were conducted by Dr. William Covert of the First Presbyterian Church on 
Sunday, April 3rd. 

Very truly yours, 

EMMA G. BULLEN. 



JOHN DRYDEN HENDERSON 

John Dryden Henderson was born at Norway, Herkimer County, N. Y., 
on July 13, 1846. His father was a farmer, of New England descent, and the 
son worked on the parental acres when he was not in school until he reached 
the age of nineteen. He prepared for college at Fairfield Acadamy, where 
he completed the three years' preparatory course with the highest honors, 
and pronounced the valedictory in June 1864. He matriculated at Hamilton 
College with the Class of 1868, but did not join the class until the beginning 
of Sophomore year. While in college Mr. Henderson took many valuable 
prizes and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from 
college he entered upon the study of law with B. Franklin of Penn Yan and 
continued his studies in the office of Hon. Robert Earle of Herkimer. 

In 1869 he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of 
his profession at Herkimer. His health failing, in 1871 he closed his office 
and engaged in fruit farming in Yates County, N. Y. In the summer of 
1872 he visited Colorado, and in August of that year resumed the practice 
of his profession at Herkimer, where he resided until his death on May 3, 
1910. He was married to Frances Louise DuBoise of Norway, N. Y., in 
August 1874. John D. Henderson, Jr., was a son, who graduated from Ham- 
ilton College in 1908. Mr. Henderson was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

Mr. Henderson met with success wherever he was. In politics he was 
a Democrat. In 1873 he was the candidate for District Attorney of Herkimer 
County. In 1876 and again in 1883 he was the President of the village of 
Herkimer. He was Member of Assembly from Herkimer County in 1890. 
In 1891 he was a candidate for State Senator, but was unable to overcome 
the majority of 4,200, losing the election by 2,100 votes. Throughout his 
whole life Mr. Henderson kept in close touch with the college we all love. 



FRANK HOARD 

Frank Hoard entered college from Chicago, but remained only a brief 
period, when he returned to his home. He graduated from a medical college 
in the West and practiced in Chicago until his death in 1885. He was a 
member of the Chi Psi Fraternity. 



CHARLES FRANCIS JANES 

Charles Francis Janes was born in Downsville, N. Y., on August 7, 1847. 
His father, Rev. Francis Janes, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
that place, where he died in 1855, leaving three sons, all of whom have 
graduated from Hamilton College and from Auburn Theological Seminary. 

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Mr. Janes prepared for college in Walton, N. Y. During his college 
course he was a diligent student and the recipient of many prizes for schol- 
arship. He was one of the editors of the Hamilton Literary Magazine. He 
completed his theological studies at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1871 
and was licensed to preach in 1870. He preached in Oxford, Chenango 
County, from 1870 to 1873 and in Corning from 1873 to 1877, after which he 
visited England and Scotland. Upon his return he wan installed as pastor 
of the Presbyterian Church of Verona, N. Y. 

He married Maria E. McLaury of Walton, N. Y., May 22, 1871. Three 
children were born to them. Mr. Janes died December 4, 1901, at Onondaga 
Valley, his last parish. He was known throughout the country because of 
his many contributions of merit to the various religious journals. In college, 
Mr. Janes became a member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity.. 



THEODORE CHARLES JEROME 

Born, Oxford, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1850. Preparatory studies at Cazenovia and 
Dwight's school, Clinton, N. Y. He was a close student. For two years he 
was in Class of '68, then fell back to '69 on account of ill health. In 1869 he 
entered Andover Seminary, was ordained in 1872, served Pacific Congrega- 
tional church of New Bedford, Mass.; also churches in Geneseo, 111., Pat- 
chogue, N. Y., Gorham and Center Harbor, N. H., where he and the three 
eldest of his children were drowned in Lake Winnepesaukee, May 28, 1886. 



WILLIAM REID JEROME 

William Reid Jerome was born at Oxford, N. Y., on April 19, 1848. His 
ancestors on both his paternal and maternal sides were residents of New 
England, Massachusetts and Connecticut for several generations previous to 
the removal of his great-grandfathers respectively to Pompey and Baldwins- 
ville, N. Y. Ira Jerome, his grandfather, was for two years a student at 
Hamilton Oneida Academy, the missionary school which in 1812 became 
Hamilton College. Rev. Charles Jerome, his father, was a graduate of Ham- 
ilton College in the Class of 1839. 

The early life of William R. Jerome was spent in New York State, but 
in various villages, owing to the frequent removals of a country Presbyterian 
minister, namely, Oxford, Bergen, Ellicottville, Trenton, Pompey and Clinton. 
The last two years of preparatory studies were at the Dwight Rural High 
School of Clinton. During his college course he paid more attention to 
private literature than to studies. In spite of this he won many scholarship 
prizes and graduated fourth in the class. 

After graduating from Columbia Law School he entered the New York 
bar in the spring of 1870. He did not continue the practice of law for long, 
but took up the sale of patents without much success. Finally he settled 
down in Philadelphia, where he was engaged as a newspaper correspondent 
and promoter of new inventions. A little later he engaged in the advertising, 
publication and periodical business. Again he took up the practice of law, 
and later, having become an earnest, exemplary Christian, devoted himself 
with great usefulness to benevolent work as agent for the House of Refugees 
in Philadelphia. He died in that city August 28, 1888. 



FRANK ALONZO JOHNSON 

Frank Alonzo Johnson was born in Boston, Mass., April 26, 1845. His 
family moved to Rome, N. Y., in the early days of the Civil War. After 
preparatory study in the Rome Academy, where Professor Oren Root, '56, 
was principal, he entered Hamilton College in 1864, and was graduated in 
1868. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Society. During his senior year 
he was one of the editors of the second volume of the Hamilton Literary 
Magazine. While in college he was active in Christian work, and it was 
there that he decided to devote his life to the Christian ministry. He studied 
for three years in the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, being 
graduated in the class of 1871. Immediately thereafter he was ordained and 
installed pastor of the Congregational Church of Lodi, N. J. In 1875 he 
was called from there to the First Congregational Church of Chester, N. J., 
where he spent fourteen years of faithful and successful work. In 1889 he n 
accepted a call to the historic Congregational Church of New Milford, Conn., 
where he remained until his retirement from the active ministry in 1907. 
During the past ten years he filled many important pulpits as supply, includ- 
ing the Greenwich Presbyterian Church of New York City and the Bethel 
Presbyterian Church of East Orange, N. J. In 1916 he returned to New 

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Milford, expecting to make that his permanent home. He died there Novem- 
ber 12, 1917. Mr. Johnson was deeply and actively interested in the ec- 
clesiastical affairs and benevolent work of the Congregational Church. For 
eleven years he was secretary of the New Jersey State Congregational As- 
sociation. He was married on September 18, 1872, at Wellsville, N. Y., to 
Mary P. Smith, who, with a sister, Emily L. Johnson, survives him. It was 
said of him, in the community where he was longest pastor, that he was 
"helpful to the helpless, kind and unselfish and patient towards all, untiring 
in winning men, women and children, both by word and example, to the 
better life, loved and honored by a multitude of people of all classes and 
conditions, mourned by a wide circle of loving and devoted friends." 

Hamilton College Bulletin, April 1918. 



ISRAEL GREENE JOHNSON 

Israel Greene Johnson was born in Logansport, Ind., on December 28, 
1843, and entered Hamilton College in 1864, but he did not finish. He was 
a member of Sigma Phi. For several years after leaving college he was 
engaged in teaching. He was a merchant in New York City, 1876-80; mer- 
chant tailor in San Francisco, 1880-1905; salesman, of cigars and tobacco, 
1905-06. His home was in Redlands, California, 1906-14. Since 1914 he had 
lived at the Elks' National Home at Bedford, Va., where he died September 5, 
1915. 

Hamilton Literary Magazine, January 1916. 



WILLIAM JOHN JONES 
William John Jones was born in Wales on March 4, 1843. He was 
reared by Christian parents and at the age of seventeen he came to America. 
His preparation for college was received at the Whitestown Seminary. After 
graduating from Hamilton College in 1868 he studied at the Lane Theological 
Seminary, from which he received his diploma in 1871. He was immediately 
called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of Chester, Ohio, and 
entered upon his ministry there in June 1871. In October of the same year 
he was ordained and installed over this church by the Presbytery of Cleve- 
land, Ohio. Here he was the pastor for nearly thirty-five years* after which 
he became an evangelist with his home at Ambler, Pa. Here he died on 
February 22, 1913, after a useful life spent for the spiritual and eternal wel- 
fare of mankind. He married Jennie E. Jones September 10, 1872, at New 
London, Butler County, Ohio. He had two children, a boy, William. Francis, 
and a girl, Ethel Margaret. Mr. Jones was a member of the Theta Delta Chi 
Fraternity. 



EBEN WINSLOW JUDSON 

Eben Winslow Judson, son of General R. W. Judson, was born in Ogdens- 
burg, N. Y., February 21, 1845. He prepared for college at the Rural High 
School in Clinton. Before completing his college course he entered the Al- 
bany Law School, from which he was graduated in 1866. Soon after he 
went to St. Joseph, Mo., and entered upon the active duties of his pro- 
fession. He married Miss Emilie Carpenter of Providence, R. I., November 
5, 1868. He was instrumental in organizing the St. Joseph Board of Trade 
in 1879, and was its president in 1885 and 1886. In 1882 he turned his 
attention to railroad enterprises, and eventually became president of the St. 
Joseph, St. Louis and Santa Fe Railway; also president of the St. Joseph 
Terminal Company. At the time of his death he was aide-de-camp with the 
rank of Colonel on the staff of Hon. David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri. 
Colonel Judson died at St. Joseph, Mo., April 7, 1890, from paralysis of the 
brain, following severe inflammatory rheumatism. His age was 45. He left 
a widow and four children. 

Hamilton Literary Magazine, May 1890. 

Mr. Judson was a member of the Sigma Phi Society. His son, Winslow 
Judson, was a member of the Class of 1894 at Hamilton. 



JOHN HENRY KNOX 
John Henry Knox, son of Rev. William E. Knox, '40, was born at Water- 
town, N. Y., August 31, 1848. He pursued his preparatory course at the 
Rome Academy. After graduating from college, he studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in Utica in 1870. From here he practiced in New York, 
St. Paul, Minn., and Waukesha, Wis., finally returning to New York, where 

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he remained until 1892. He then went to Englewood, N. J., and practiced 
there until 1898, when he retired. Here he died, July 6, 1910. He was mar- 
ried about 1872. Mr. Knox was a member of the Sigma Phi Society. 



WILLIAM TOWNSEND LAIRD 

William Townsend Laird, eldest son of William O. and Sarah A. Laird, 
was born in Stittville, Oneida County, N. Y., August 2, 1846. His preparation 
for college was made at the Whitestown Seminary, and he was graduated 
with the Curran gold medal in classics and the valedictory of his class. He 
began the study of medicine with Dr. M. M. Gardner of Utica, was a student 
for one year in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and was 
graduated from the New York Homoeopathic Medical College February 29, 
1872. In April, 1872, Dr. Laird began the practice of medicine in Water- 
town, where he was associated at first with Dr. J. V. Daggert and later with 
S. C. Knickerbocker. In 1880 he removed to Augusta, Maine, and in 1882 
was elected president of the Maine Homoeopathic Medical Society. In Feb- 
ruary 1883, yielding to the solicitation of friends, he returned to Watertown. 
In 1887 he was one of the founders of the Farrington Medical Club, and in 
1893 was elected president of the Jefferson County Medical Society. Dr. 
Laird was a frequent contributor to the medical journals, and his contribu- 
tions have a permanent value. In 1881 he edited the second edition of 
"Bell and Laird on Diarrhoea and Dysentery." He was president of the 
Watertown Board of Health for two years previous to his death, which oc- 
curred Saturday evening, October 7, 1899. Few men accomplish so much in 
a professional life so prematurely closed. Dr. Laird gained the confidence 
and hearty esteem of all who knew him. Always intensely active, he was 
genial, companionable and sympathetic. His strong personality was made 
attractive by candor, honesty and frankness. He married in June, 1878, Miss 
Minnie Raplee, of Watertown, who survives her husband. His mother also 
survives, and one brother, Dr. Frank F. Laird, '77, of Utica. He was a 
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. J 

Hamilton Literary Magazine, December 1899. 



WILLIAM HENRY LEWIS 
William Henry Lewis was born in Steuben, N. Y., on February 2, 1843. 
He entered with the Class of ]868, coming from Utica, where he prepared 
for college. He remained but a brief period. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
March 15, 1865. 



RODERICK MORRISON LOOMIS 
Roderick Morrison Loomis was born in Westmoreland. He received his 
preparation for college at the Dwight Rural High School. After graduation 
he was a journalist in Newark, N. J. Inquiries as to his whereabouts have 
been fruitless. A report has it that he died in 1916, but the foundation for 
such is uncertain. Mr. Loomis was a member of Psi Upsilon. 



JOSEPH ADDISON MARSHALL 
Joseph Addison Marshall, son of Hon. Levi T. and Mary Ann Smith 
Marshall, was born on a farm near Vernon Center, N. Y., February 21, 1846. 
His early tastes seemed to be for books rather than for farming. His col- 
lege preparation was received at the Whitestown Seminary and the Water- 
ville Seminary. He was a fine student and was awarded many prizes in col- 
lege, among them being Phi Beta Kappa. In February 1869 he went to Glov- 
ersville, intending to enter business, and was for a time secretary and treas- 
urer of a manufacturing company. He afterward studied law at the Albany 
Law School, where he graduated in 1871. The next year he spent, in the 
law office of Prichard, Choate & Smith of New York City. From 1873 to 1876 
he was engaged in business in Gloversville, and in 1877 he entered upon 
the practice of law in Lincoln, Neb. In January 1878 he entered partnership 
with a leading lawyer of that city, constituting the firm of Brown & Mar- 
shall. About 1910 his health failed him and he went to Sacramento, Cal., 
where he died on February 13, 1911. He married Irene W. Lasher, of Scho- 
harie Court House, N. Y., on January 26, 1876. He was a member of Delta 
Kappa Epsilon. 



WILLIAM HOWELL MASTERS 
William Howell Masters was born at Goshen, N. Y., on February 18, 
1847, and entered college from Matteawan, N. Y. After graduating from col- 

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lege he entered the railway service in 1869 as axeman of the engineer corps. 
From May 1, 1869, to July 1, 1870, he was rodman for the Poughkeepsie and 
Eastern Railway, as well as leveler for the Poughkeepsie Water Works. 
In 1871 and 1872 he was Assistant Engineer of the Newburgh Midland Rail- 
way and also of the International and Great Northern Railway. From 1873 
to 1876 he was Assistant Engineer of the Texas and Pacific Railway, Civil 
Engineer of the Texas State Penitentiary and Division Engineer of the Texas 
and New Orleans Railway. In 1877 he became Superintendent and General 
Freight Agent of the Texas and New Orleans Railway. From 1882 to 1885 
he was Contracting Freight Agent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway 
and later General Freight and Passenger Agent of the same road. In 1886 
he became General Freight Agent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail- 
way, from which position he retired in 1893, and soon became Commissioner 
of the New Orleans Bureau of Freight and Transportation. At that time he 
transferred his residence to New Orleans. Soon after he was appointed by 
the Governor of Louisiana as a member of the State Board of Arbitration 
and Conciliation, and upon the organization of the Board was made Chair- 
man. From that time until his death on November 16, 1904, he was much 
interested in the railroad problems of the country. He married Helen .M. 
Wynne of Huntsville, Texas, on May 16, 1877. He had two sons, both of 
whom were born in Huntsville. 



MARTIN VAN BUREN McGRAW 
Martin VanBuren McGraw was born in Schuyler, N. Y., in 1843. He 
was the son of Hiram and Sallie McGraw. After completing his course at 
Hamilton he studied law at the Albany Law School and was admitted to the 
bar in 1871. He soon associated himself with John F. Seymour and Rutger 
B. Miller in the city of Utica. In 1882 he became the partner of Edward 
Lewis, with whom he continued in business until his death on April 26, 
1912. Mr. McGraw was a Democrat in politics and was at one time the 
City Attorney for Utica. In the early seventies he married Josephine Tanner, 
of Deerfield, N. Y., who died in 1908. It was said by all of Mr. McGraw's 
acquaintances that he was of unobtrusive nature, but made friends easily. 
The word of his passing was received with regret by all who knew him. 



GEORGE EDWARD McMASTER 

George Edward McMaster, son of the Hon. David McMaster, '24, was 
born in Bath, N. Y., on November 5, 1849. He joined the Class of 1868 in 
the Sophomore year and after graduation he was Principal of the Franklin 
Academy at Prattsburgh for one year. After this he studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1871. He died in Bath, N. Y., November 26, 1880. 
Mr. McMaster was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. 



MARTIN RUMSEY MILLER 

Martin Rumsey Miller, son of Rev. L. Merrill Miller, D. D., '40, and 
Lydia Rumsey Miller, was born at Bath, N. Y., on April 24, 1848. He pre- 
pared for college under a private tutor and entered college from Ogdens- 
burg. He was an honor student in college as well as being a member of 
the famous baseball nine of '68. After graduating Mr. Miller entered the 
Albany Law School and in 1869 he was admitted to the bar, spending a part 
of that year in an office in Albany. The fall and winter of 1869 and 1870 
he spent in Europe. In October 1870 he entered the law office of his uncles, 
D. & W. Rumsey, of Bath, N. Y., as a clerk, in which position he served 
until July 1873, when he became a member of the firm of Rumsey & Miller, 
David Rumsey of the former having been appointed a judge in the 7th Dis- 
trict U. S. Court. In November 1880, William Rumsey, having been elected 
Justice of the Supreme Court, retired from the firm, which was succeeded 
by the partnership of Miller & (W. H.) Nichols. Mr. Miller became one of 
the leaders of the Steuben County bar and was prominent in the politics of 
the county, having been given a complimentary majority by both of the par- 
ties in his re-election for Surrogate. He was married October 25, 1876, to 
M. Louisa Cook, of New York, and had four children. On July 2, 1905, this 
noble life on earth ended. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fra- 
ternity. 



EDWIN MILLS NELSON 
Edwin Mills Nelson, son of Henry A. and Margaret (Mills), was born 
in Auburn, N. Y., November 18, 1847. He prepared for college at the St. 

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Louis (Mo.) High School. At college, he received many scholastic honors. 
He delivered the Salutatory at graduation and was elected a member of 
Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching school for two years at the Cayuga Lake 
Academy, Aurora, N. Y., he studied medicine at Miami Medical College, from 
which he graduated in 1874. Meanwhile he served for some months as a 
clerk in the Board of Health of Cincinnati, and a year as the Resident Physi- 
cian in the Cincinnati Hospital. In 1874 he removed to St. Louis, where ho 
practiced until his death on September 20, 1910. During Ihe years al St. 
Louis he served as Attending Physician to the St. Louis Orphan Asylum 
and Physician to the St. Louis Lying-in Charity, the Maternity Hospital, the 
Medical College and the outdoor department of the hospital and Attending 
Physician and Obstetrician to that institution, and Superintendent of the 
Outdoor Obstetric Clinic of the St. Louis Medical College. For four years 
he was Managing Editor of the St. Louis Courier of Medicine, the largest 
circulated medical journal of the West. In 1882 he was given the degree 
of Ph. D. by Hamilton. On July 23, 1883, he married Emily A. Nelson of 
Elmira, N. Y. He had four children, two girls and two boys. He was a 
member of Delta Upsilon. 



ALBERT EUGENE PATTISON 
Albert Eugene Pattison was born at Forestville, N. Y., on February 10, 
1846. After his graduation from Hamilton in 1868 he began the study of law 
at Forestville with the firm of Sherman &. Scott. He remained there until 
November 1868, and then entered the office of Kiron Carroll, in Rome, as a 
student. In April 1869 he was admitted to the bar in the city of Syracuse 
and in May he entered partnership with Charles D. Murray of Dunkirk, N. Y. 
The partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in May 1874. While it 
continued, this firm of Murray & Pattison enjoyed a large practice, second 
to none in the County of Chautauqua. After the dissolution of the partner- 
ship with Mr. Murray he removed from Dunkirk to Buffalo, where he prac- 
ticed until June 6, 1882. The health of his wife led him to remove from 
Buffalo to Denver, where he became associated with Hon. Edward O. Wol- 
cott, who was the United States Senator from that State. Here he had charge 
of the business of the several railroad corporations which the Senator repre- 
sented. In September 1875 he was appointed Assistant General Solicitor of 
the Colorado Midland Railway Company and removed from Denver to Colo- 
rado Springs. He resigned from the employ of that company in October, 
1888, and practiced law in Colorado Springs until April 1889. At that time 
he was appointed by Governor Cooper to the office of Supreme Court Com- 
missioner of the State for the period of four years. He then removed to 
Denver. He remained in the position for one year, because the salary paid 
by the State to the members of the Supreme Court was small, and believing 
it his duty to earn more, he resigned. He resumed the practice of law and 
soon became a partner of Thomas H. Edsall and Henry W. Hobson. Here 
he practiced law until his death on August 12, 1902. On January 25, 1870, 
he was married to Emma Ann Paddock of Cleveland. Three children, a boy 
and two girls, were born to them. Mr. Pattison was Dean of the Denver 
Law School and Professor of Corporation Law. He was a member of the 
Chi Psi Fraternity. 



HENRY NELSON PAYNE 

Henry Nelson Payne, son of John and Elizabeth S. (Nelson), was born 
at Horseheads, N. Y., on November 4, 1840. His college preparation for the 
most part was received at Allen's Grove Academy in Wisconsin. In July 
1861 Mr. Payne entered Beloit College, Wisconsin. On September 5 of that 
year he enlisted as a private soldier in Company A, Thirteenth Regiment, 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He served with the regiment in Kansas, 
Kentucky and Tennessee until September 3, 1863, when he was commissioned 
by the President as Captain of Company A, Fourth Regiment, Arkansas 
Volunteer Infantry (colored), which position he retained until March 9, 1864, 
when he was commissioned by Abraham Lincoln as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
Regiment. In 1865 he entered the Class of 1868 at Hamilton as a Sophomore. 
While in college he won many honors, among them being Phi Beta Kappa. 
After graduating from college he studied at Chicago, Auburn and Lane 
Theological Seminaries. On October 5, 1871, he was ordained by the Pres- 
byterian Church at Minneapolis. Here he continued as pastor until 1876. 
After that he was pastor of Presbyterian churches as follows: Onondaga 
Valley, N. Y., 1876; Lima, N. Y., 1876-1879; Oxford, N. Y., 1879-1882; and 
Boone, Iowa, 1882-1885. From 1885 to 1894 he was Field Secretary of the 

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Presbyterian Board of Missionaries for Freedmen, with his residence at At- 
lanta, Georgia. In 1885 he was one of the Commissioners to the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. In 1894 he became the President 
of the Mary Holmes Seminary at West Point, Miss., which position he held 
at the time of his death on July 9, 1903. He was married to Elizabeth A. 
Porter of Auburn, N. Y., on September 7, 1871. In 1891 he received the degree 
of D. D. from his Alma Mater. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. 



LOUIS DWIGHT POMEROY 

Louis Dwight Pomeroy, the second son of Rev. Louis Dwight Pomeroy, 
was born May 3, 1846, in Moretown, Washington County, N. Y., where his 
father was then the pastor of the Congregational Church. Two years after 
the loss of his father (who died in Palmyra, Mich., February 7, 1852) he 
removed with his mother to Ogdensburg, and at the age of 14 united with 
the Presbyterian Church under the care of Rev. L. Merrill Miller, D. D. In 
college he won distinction as a brilliant and graceful writer and maintained 
a foremost rank in all classical and belles-lettres studies. His example of 
Christian fidelity, earnestness and joy in doing good made a spiritual life 
lovely and attractive to all who knew him. He longed to be a preacher of 
the gospel with such ardent longing that it cost him a painful struggle to 
yield to the counsel of friends who reminded him of his inherited tendency 
to consumption. In September, 1868, he began the work of a teacher in the 
State Institution for Deaf Mutes at Flint, Mich. Here he fondly hoped by 
the use of sign language to do a good work for Christ and Christian educa- 
tion. In one of his graphic letters from Flint he speaks of himself as "in a 
world of mute students, with imprisoned minds, looking out from their cells 
Ogdensburg, and there, surrounded by dear and familiar faces and scenes, 
he resigned this position in January 1870. He had been so eminently suc- 
cessful as a teacher that his resignation was not accepted until the 1st of 
March. On the 25th of that month he left Flint for Chetopa, Kan. He made 
a brave struggle for life, but it was all in vain. In April he returned to 
Ogdensburg, and there, surrounded by dear and familiar faces and scenes 
giving daily comfort to his mother and wife and friends, he glided within 
the vail April 4, 1871. He was married to Mollie C. McGregor, of Ogdens- 
burg, May 17, 1869. His son, Louis Dwight Pomeroy, was born April 9, 1871. 
He was a member of Delta Upsilon. 

Hamilton Literary Monthly, July 1871. 



FRANK RICE 

Judge Frank Rice was born in the town of Seneca, Ontario County, N. Y., 
January 15, 1845, and died December 5, 1914. In his early years he worked 
about the farm and attended the rural district school winters. When eleven 
years old he entered the private school of Dr. Taylor in Geneva and remained 
there for a year. When fifteen years old he entered the Geneva Classical 
and Union School and spent a year there. Then he entered Canandaigua 
Academy under the tutorship of Noah T. Clarke, for forty years the principal 
of that then noted institution of learning, and studied in the academy the 
ensuing years. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1868 and soon after- 
wards entered the law offices of Comstock & Bennett, of Canandaigua, and 
there laid the foundation for legal attainments that have caused him to be 
known far and wide as one of the most able lawyers in the State. His 
ability and oratorical skill enabled him to rise to a commanding position in 
his chosen profession, and his services were much sought by persons and 
companies having hard legal knots to untangle. 

He was a staunch Democrat and entered politics, seven times being a 
candidate for office, but never defeated. He was admitted to the bar in 
1870 and five years later was elected District Attorney of Ontario County, 
and was re-elected in 1878. He carried this county for Assembly by a 
majority of 1,266 in 1882, reversing a Republican plurality of 1,223 the pre- 
vious year. 

The Legislature being Democratic that year, Mr. Rice rapidly rose to a 
prominent position among his party leaders, being chairman of the Committee 
on Election and Privileges and a member of the. Judiciary, Insurance and 
other important committees. He was renominated for the Assembly in 1883 
and achieved a great victory against one of the strongest Republicans of the 
county, pitted against him in a special effort to defeat the rising young 
Democratic giant. Rice was winner by a plurality of 241, while the remainder 
of the Republican ticket was elected by a plurality of 700. 

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That year, the Assembly being Republican, Rice failed to become speaker, 
for which position he was nominated by his party, but was the floor leader 
of the Democracy the next year. Rice was elected County Judge of Ontario 
County, thus achieving his fifth victory in the county normally Republican. 

After serving five years as County Judge he was nominated by the state 
convention of his party for Secretary of State in 1889 and won by more than 
20,000 plurality over John I. Gilbert, Republican. Judge Rice was a member 
of the Democratic State Committee in 1888 and has attended as a delegate 
nearly all of the Democratic state conventions since 1880. He was a dele- 
gate to the National Democratic convention in 1880 when General Hancock 
was nominated, and in 1892 when Grover Cleveland was nominated. He has 
also been a delegate to other Democratic national conventions. Judge Rice 
was re-elected Secretary of State in 1891 by the increased plurality of 38,173 
over Eugene F. O'Connor. 

Of late years he has given his attention to his legal work and has been 
counsel in many famous trials, including the Benham murder case sent to 
Canandaigua from Batavia for trial, the prosecution of five members of the 
Clerks' Union of Canandaigua for conspiracy and the murder of Frank Fish. 
He has been for years a member of the law firm of Wynkoop & Rice, which 
firm was formed many years ago when both members were young lawyers. 
Judge Rice never married. Mr. Rice was a member of the Chi Psi Fra- 
ternity. He died Dec. 5, 1914. 

Hamilton Literary Magazine, January 1915. 



NORMAN PRENTICE SACKRIDER 

Norman Prentice Sackrider was born at Norfolk, N. J., on April 2, 1847. 
He entered college from Ogdensburg. After graduation he studied medicine 
in Cleveland, during which time he became a member of the Cleveland Board 
of Health. His own health becoming impaired, he joined a party of sur- 
veyors in Mexico. In 1881 his mind became affected, and in a fit of insanity 
he killed two men, and was himself shot through the heart and instantly 
killed by one of the party in self-defense. All accounts spoke of him as a 
physician of unusual promise, and refer sadly to the untimely ending of his 
career. Mr. Sackrider was a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity. 



GEORGE NIVER SNYDER 

George Niver Snyder, a son of Hon. Isaiah Snyder, was born at Hones- 
dale, Pa., March 27, 1844. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary 
in May 1871, and in June following was installed pastor of the Reformed 
Church of Elmsford, Westchester County, N. Y. He died at the residence 
of his father-in-law, C. M. Scott, Esq., in Honesdale, Pa., November 7, 1872. 

Mr. Snyder was dedicated in infancy to Christ and the Christian min- 
istry. The influence of his departed mother's instruction and prayers ever 
attended him. He publicly united with the Presbyterian Church in Hones- 
dale June 30, 1858. He had fine natural gifts, was a ready, impressive speaker 
and gave promise of rising to eminent usefulness in his chosen profession. 
He was married November 15, 1871, to Sarah Scott of Honesdale, Pa. 

Hamilton Literary Monthly, June 1873. 

Mr. Snyder was a member of the Sigma Phi Society. 



DAVID SANFORD TRUMAN 

David Sanford Truman entered college from Butternuts, N. Y. He left 
the class at the end of Sophomore year. At last accounts he had become a 
great American traveler, paying his way over nearly the whole United States 
by a stereopticon exhibition. Inquiry leads to the belief that he is dead, 
though it has not been possible to learn date of his decease. 



HENRY RANDALL WAITE 
Henry Randall Waite was born at Copenhagen, N. Y., December 16, 1845, 
and died May 6, 1909. He was a son of the late Rev. Hiram H. and Sarah 
Randall Waite. After attending the local public schools he prepared for 
college at Antwerp Seminary. While he was in college he organized and 
conducted a course of popular lectures in which such men as Beecher, King 
and Chapin participated. That was no small undertaking for a college boy, 
for men of that character and reputation received large sums for such serv- 
ice, and while there was a chance to make money if the audience was big 
enough, there was also an equal and sometimes a better chance to lose. 

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Thus he brought to the young men the opportunity to hear famous speakers 
which they would not have had otherwise. 

The work for which Mr. Waite was best known was a book entitled 
"Carmina Collegensia." In this book were compiled the songs of the several 
x\merican colleges, with the words and music. It was a good-sized volume 
and was published by Ditson. It at once sprang into popular favor, and 
there was a great demand for it in all of the colleges in the country and as 
well all over the United States where college songs are sung and liked. The 
sale continued year after year and brought some revenue to the editor of 
the book, which was certainly a very excellent one in every respect. 

After graduating from college, Mr. Waite worked for two or three years 
as a member of the editorial staff of the Utica Morning Herald, and after 
that took a course in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, 
preparing for the ministry. When he had finished his education there he 
went to Rome, Italy, remaining there for three years. During his residence 
in that famous old city he organized and conducted the American Chaplet, 
which was under the patronage of A. S. Barnes and other wealthy New 
Yorkers, and was a work much appreciated and very acceptably maintained. 

Returning from Italy, Dr. Waite preached for a few years in the Pres- 
byterian Church at Pelham Manor. His health being impaired, he retired 
from the ministry and thereafter devoted his time and attention to the man- 
agement of real estate matters with which he was interested and concerned 
in New York City. He organized the Institute of Civics in that city, and 
was secretary of the society and a frequent and valued contributor to its 
publications. 

Dr. Waite married Caroline A. Huntoon, of Boston, Mass., who survives, 
with two children, Winthrop and Eleanor. Dr. Waite was a man of rare 
intellectual and literary ability, a charming conversationalist and a man who 
readily drew warm friends about him. He was at the Hamilton College 
commencement in June 1908, attending a reunion of the Delta Upsilon Fra- 
ternity, of which he was a member. He was a man of splendid character, 
and led a happy and useful life. 

Hamilton Literary Magazine, May 1909. 



JAMES HAZLETON WILLARD 

James Hazleton Willard, only son of the late Hon. Ashbel Parsons Wil- 
lard, '42 (who died in 1860 while Governor of Indiana), was born on April 1, 
1848, at New Albany, Ind. In 1869 he was graduated from the Columbia Law 
School and admitted to the bar in New York City. In 1870 he was a student 
of law in the College of France, and in 1871 a student of law in Vienna. 
He was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1872, 
in 1879, in 1889. In 1882 he was elected to the Indiana Senate. Under the 
presidency of Grover Cleveland he served on a commission to Mexico. In 
1877 he married at Bedford, Ind., Kate L. Newland, who died about two 
years ago. Mr. Willard died suddenly of pneumonia April 16, 1901, at the 
Clarendon Hotel in New York. He was buried beside his wife in Bedford, 
Ind. Mr. Willard inherited his father's aptitude for public service and earned 
distinction as a political orator. 

Hamilton Literary Magazine, May 1901. 

Mr. Willard was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. 



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CONTRIBUTIONS OF JOHN H. WILSON AND 
SEABURY S. GOULD 



To the Fiftieth Reunion of the Class of 1868, Hamilton 
College, held at Clinton, N. Y., Saturday, June 22, 1918, John 
H. Wilson contributed the following original poem, "The Class 
of '68", and S. S. Gould sent the collection of thoughts in prose 
and verse which follows Mr. Wilson's poem. 



The Class oi '68 

One half century ago the class of sixty-eight 
Stepped forth into a world of which it chiefly 

bore the weight, 
Relieving Atlas of a task which bent him 

nearly double, 
But which each member of the class could do 

devoid of trouble. 
Oh, golden youth! Oh, sanguine youth! 

what calm assurance thine, 
What task is there on earth could cause you 

curvature of spine? 
Each man an Archimedes of the most modern 

brand. 
Could move a half a dozen worlds, give him a 

place to stand. 
How lucky 'twas Pandora snapped shut her 

reticule 
And saved hope for those bonnie boys just 

coming out of school. 
At three score years and ten and five, why 

can 't I be as wise 
As when I viewed the future through a sapient 

senior's eyes? 
How woefully those hats have shrun'. we 

wore so long ago ; 
Alas! how very many things we knew which 

were not so. 
We did not aim to do things that required 

merely muscle 
But we were there on both feet when it came 

to mental tussle. 
To do Herculean deeds we'd simply formulate 

a plan, 
To cleanse an Augean garage we'd send the 

hired man. 
Commencement being over and the world 

once more at peace, 
Jason-like we sailed away to find the golden 

fleece; 
But whether helmsman was at fault or com- 
pass went askew 
That ovissean overcoat was found by very 

few. 
But never mind, we've had the sail and now 

are nearing port, 
We've known the ups and downs of life we've 

had our day at court, 
Already o'er the Styx have passed full many 

of our best 
And Charon sits there waiting to ferry o'er 

the rest. 
Let him not get impatient, he won't have 

long to wait 
Ere he has toted over the last man of sixty 

eight. 

JOHN H.WILSON, 



Selections sent by S. S. Gould 
The Cheery Heart 

Though you've neither gold nor silver. 
Though you've neither lands nor name, 

Never dream you are not wanted. 
You are needed just the same. 

In this world of toil and sorrow 
You may take a valiant part 

And the world will love and bless you 
If you have a cheery heart. 

Do not look for clouds and shadows, 
Watch for sunshine day by day, 

Let your voice be full of courage, 
Scatter gladness all the way. 

Down the dark and teeming present 
Learn the dear and precious art, 

How to meet both haps and mishaps 
Ever with a cheery heart. 

All forecasting of tomorrow 
In a mood of bleak despair, 

All distrust of God's sure promise. 
All faint shirking anywhere, 

From a lack of faith and patience, 
Makes the coward foolish start. 

Walk with God with head uplifted, 
Bear about a cheery heart. 

God forget you? Never! Neveri 
He will keep you to the end. 

If He send a sudden tempest 
Still His rainbow He will send. 

Trust in Heaven and make earth brighter 
For the trust, and let no dart 

Of a transient pain bereave you 
Of God's gift, the cheery heart. 

— Margaret E. Sangster. 



Friends, in this world of hurry 

And work and sudden end, 
If a thought comes quick of doing 

A kindness to a friend, 
Do it that blessed minute, 

Don't put it off, don't wait. 
What's the use of doing a kindness 

If you do it a day too late? 

— Gordon League Ballads. 



The lesson that life dins into us with 
such ceaseless iteration that it seems 
impossible that any of us would ever 
fail to hear it, is 

TO MAKE HASTE TO BE KIND. 
— Rhoda Broughton. 



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I expect to pass through this world 
but once. Any good thing, therefore, 
that I can do or -any kindness that I 
can show to any human being, let me 
do it now. Let me not neglect or 
defer it, for I shall not pass this way 
again. 

— Stephen Grellet. 

Do the work that's nearest, 

Though 'tis dull at whiles; 

Helping when they need it 
Lame dogs over stiles. 

— Charles Kingsley. 



Howe'er it be, it seems to me 

'Tis only noble to be good; 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood. 

— Tennyson. 



Sow good services — sweet remem- 
brances will grow from them. 

— Madame de Stael. 

Kindness begets kindness and truth 
and trust will bear a rich harvest* of 
truth and trust. There are many 
trivial acts of kindness which teach us 
more about a man's character than 
many vague phrases. 

— Samuel Smiles. 



'Tis worth a wise man's best of life, 
'Tis worth a thousand years of strife, 
If thou canst lessen but by one 
The countless ills beneath the sun. 

— John Sterling. 



Life is a mirror for king and for slave, 
'Tis just what you are and do, 

Then give to the world the best you have 
And the best will come back to you. 



So many gods, so many creeds, 

So many roads that wind and wind, 
And yet the art of being kind 

Is all this sad world needs. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



Wherever in the world I am. 

In whatsoever estate, 
I have a fellowship with hearts 

To keep and cultivate; 
And a work of lowly love to do 

For the Lord on whom I wait. 

— A. L. Waring. 



God makes my life a little staff 
Whereon the weak may rest, 

That so what health and strength I have 
May serve my neighbors best. 

— M. B. Edwards. 



Do good to thy friend to keep him, 
To thy enemy to gain him. 

— Benjamin Franklin. 



He prayeth best who loveth best 

All things both great and small, 

For the great God who loveth us 
He made and loveth all. 

— Coleridge. 



He who has conferred a kindness 
should be silent, he who has received 
one should speak of it. 

— Seneca. 



Do all the good you can, 
By all the means you can, 
In all the ways you can, 
At all the times you can, 
To all the people you can, 
As long as ever you can. 



— John Wesley. 



The life that counts must toil and fight; 
Must hate the wrong and love the right; 
Must stand for truth, by day, by night — 
This is the life that counts. 

The life that counts must hopeful be; 
In darkest night make melody; 
Must wait the dawn on bended knee — 
This is the life that counts. 

The life that counts must helpful be; 
The cares and needs of others see; 
Must seek the slaves of sin to free, — 
This is the life that counts. 

The life that counts is linked with God ; 
And turns not from the cross, the rod; 
But walks with joy where Jesus trod — 
This is the life that counts. 

— AWS. 



Alas! to think how many people's 
creeds are contradicted by their deeds. 
. — Anon. 



The only joys that live and grow 
are those we share with others. 

— Anon. 



It is not great deeds that make peo- 
ple's lives happy, it is the little kind- 
nesses of everyday life. 

— E. Hadwen. 



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A COLLEGE OF FIFTY YEARS AGO 






Letters of Rev. Cassius H. Dibble Read at the Hamilton College Alumni 

Reunion, June 1918 

The following letter read by Rev. omores will "mount up with wings as 
Cassius H. Dibble of the class of 1868 eagles," while timid freshmen will 
at the last Hamilton College Alum- "fly as doves to their windows." 
ni Reunion, held at Clinton, N. Y., College Hill and the Chapel 

presents so graphic a picture of the 0ur remembrance is, that it was a 
small college of fifty years ago that long> long way to the toP) as we took 
it will interest not only alumni of the our first walk up College Hill; re- 
institution which it particularly de- m i n ding us of the Swiss guide who 
scribes but college men generally. Mr. had for his epitaph, "He died climb- 
Dibble said: ing." No figure of speech for a fresh- 
Mr. President and Alumni of Ham- man> this hill of knowledge, 
ilton: The first point of approach was the 
Your Annalist has been asked to college chapel, beautiful outwardly, 
"prepare and read a letter describing but i nwar dly, like an old Jewish sep- 
the college as it was fifty years ago." u i c her, full of all uncleanness. An old- 
If this is the standing subject for this time stove with lengths of rusty pipe 
occasion, as the request seems to im- held the center. The windows were 
ply, then the aforesaid letter may turn wide and staring with the light of 
out either a chestnut or a lemon. The common day. The seats, of right an- 
bnly relief from vain repetition is in gle construction, were not calculated 
a change of victims. Was it Artemas to encourage repose during devotions. 
Ward who used to say, "If my mem- These seats were cut with the names 
ory serves me right, and I think she of those w ho had diligently improved 
does"? As the annalist, on his Ward their only chance for the "Hall of 
side, perches somewhere in the same Fame." The pulpit, irreverently called 
family tree, his memory ought to the "bear-box," was of Puritan plain- 
serve. There was not much in the ness> and on either side were the up- 
storehouse of memory to begin with, per sea ts of the synagogue for the 
but in the words of John Bunyan, faculty. Very little there was to in- 
"Still as I. pulled, it came." The four spire devotion, no dim religious light, 
years in a man's college life are dis- no churchly appointments in keeping 
tinctive, they stand out foursquare wit h Christian institutions in a dis- 
from all the years that precede or fol- tinctly Christian college. Subsequent 
low— a peculiar and intensive experi- c lass rows within these sacred pre- 
ence, not to be repeated and not easily cincts only confirmed our first impres- 
forgotten. sion s, 

The College of Fifty Years Ago Class Rows 

We find the college of fifty years The freshman's second point of 
ago in the middle-sixties, from '64 to contact was his natural enemy, the 
'68 inclusive. The Hamilton Literary sophomore, who had a nasty way of 
Monthly, first published in 1866, and saying "Fresh! Fresh!" in a con- 
a common crib for annalists, has been temptuous nasal, as if the very word 
an aid to memory. Entering college were offensive to his refined olfactory 
in the fall of '64, Clinton was reached organs. His favorite diversion was a 
by a safety first stage coach, starting class row in the college chapel after 
from Bagg's Hotel, Utica. Two years rhetorical exercises. As the classes 
later, a railroad from Clinton to New filed out in order, the "sophs," leaving 
Hartford connected with horse cars a few of their strongest men to dis- 
for Utica. The engine was of the pute the freshman passage, would 
"dummy" variety, — a very humble close the door and re-entering through 
specimen of "The Black Knight of the windows, would attack the fresh- 
modern civilization, with white plumes man rear. The beleaguered freshmen 
waving in the air," — a favorite quo- straightway put forth the labors of 
tation with Prof. Upson. With steam Hercules to pass that door — to go out 
cars and electrics following the old the way they came in. This meant the 
stage coach to the junk heap, the an- rending of garments, the disfigure- 
nalist predicts that in the twenties of ment of faces, and a struggle to the 
the twentieth century daring soph- point of exhaustion, with the upper- 

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classmen enjoying the row on the out- frowned upon the barbarous custom, 
side, and the professor in charge sit- even though they had practiced it 
ting helpless on the inside, with a somewhat through the compulsion of 
frown on his brow which said, "Wild precedent in their unthinking days, 
animals let loose, let them rend one But to the re-creation of chapel sur- 
another till they are tired." roundings, which even half civilized 
Hazing men were bound to respect, the great- 
Hazing was also indulged in in er credit is due. 
those ancient days. When a freshman H ° w lc f5 the cruel and cowardly 
was thought to "think more highly ™ stom of hazm ^ continued after this 
of himself than he ought to think," ^smmng 01 reforms we know nor. 



for the good of his soul, he was taken 
from his room, or perchance his bed, 
and trimmed — his inordinate self-con- 
ceit disappearing with his scalp lock. 



Athletics 

Athletic privileges, outside of give 
and take in rowing, were very limited 
fifty years ago. There was a gymnast 



This was not a performance to be um, so called, a mere shell of a build- 
proud of — ten valiant "sophs," more or ing in the rear of Middle College, 
less, snatching one poor, defenseless never warmed until our senior year, 
freshman, without immediate society with very meager facilities for exer 
prospects or upper-classmen friends to cise, limited mostly to parallel bars 
protect him. It was indeed jungle and swinging rings. A physical direc- 
law and the animals played the game tor was not even dreamed of. There 
of precedent to the last ditch. Habeas was much rivalry in coasting, and the 
^Corpus, the great writ of personal lib record of the fastest sled must be 
erty, had no standing in college law surpassed at all hazards. The use of 
lessness, and the unfortunate victim the sidewalk, a forbidden privilege, 
could not appeal to a higher court be and therefore often indulged in on 
fore the indignity had been inflicted, the side, or in the dark, was also at- 
and then, silence lest a worse thing tractive for its thrills, especially in 
come upon him. shooting the narrow way of the arbor, 
The Refitted Chapel a perilous passage, and sometimes 
Three years later, after repeated serious if not fata1 ' 



failures to abolish class rows in 
chapel, the reform was accomplished 



Baseball 

Baseball was then in its infancy, as 



by re-fitting the interior. The old whit- the following official report reveals: 
tied and straight-backed seats were "Grand game of baseball for the 
replaced by those of better material Oysters played by the first nines of 
and more comfortable angle, while the senior and junior classes, 'Q1 and 
the students paid the bill for cushions. '68 — game very close until the seventh 
The old "bear-box" was succeeded inning, when the seniors brought in 
by a black walnut desk, crowning a eleven tallies (note the rustic word 
re-shaped and carpeted stage. The "tallies.") Score, seniors 40, juniors 
dingy stove with its rusty pipe gave 27. Time of game, two hours and 
place to a furnace which supplied all thirty minutes." No body or head pro- 
needed caloric. Through the kindness tectors in those days. The game had 
of Mrs. Root, the windows, heretofore not yet reached the effeminate stage, 
helpless in resisting the intruding The ball was handled without gloves, 
rays of the sun, were protected by The pitcher pitched — the catcher was 



neat and effectual shades. As a con- 
sequence, chapel rows were discon- 



expected to take the ball off the bat 
no matter what happened to his fin- 



tinued. The exclusive credit for this gers, and it often did. The vulgar spii 

long delayed reform was of course ball and the elusive curve and drop 

claimed by each class in turn. The had not yet arrived. The first college 

freshman, soon to become a sopho- nine went into training senior year, 

more, with great self-sacrifice was Match games with other colleges 

willing to deny himself the sweetness were expected — challenge seldom ac- 
of revenge upon his innocent succes- 
sors. The sophomore, who had rev- 



cepted. Grove Hopkins was our most 
graceful player, and as good as he was 



eled in a full year of rowing, was quite graceful. 

willing to deprive his successors of Thus athletic exercises were mere 

the exquisite pleasure. The juniors child's play then, as compared with 

and seniors, of course, had always those of today in "Steuben Athletic 

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Field," with tennis courts, football The oaths and cursings which he 

field, and running track. Yet the heaped upon the head of the heretic 

grand old rallying cry of a famous student he would serve were, in their 

English school, "Play up! play up: degree, a measure of his affection. 

and play the game!" was always in The better he liked a man the deeper 

order with such things as we had. his curses. He would do anything for 



The Religion of the Day 
'Fear God and take your own part," 



the fellow he favored save to wash 

himself. He would make his bed an: 1 

clean his room, but himself he would 
was practiced fifty years before T. R. . ■. „ T , . , , . , ,, 

K_ , . . . * : ... not clean. It is to be hoped tha r 

preached his characteristic sermon up- Do , „. . • . * 

*T. *. * j. -rrr +1 Peter s long reign as the college 

on that text. We recently ran acrosr; , , .;; , , , . 

, . ,. „,, -r, „ chambermaid has had no successor in 

those words in reading Romany Rye, . . , 

~ -^ j ., kind, 

by George Borrow, and can easily un- , _ .. _ 

, J . , & A , . '. , , , i,. Improvement in College Dormitories 

derstand their special appeal to Theo- -Tj^^ „*+ «*+ ^ ^ ^ 

, , . ~ , , , Now, after fifty years, we find that 

dore, who fears God only and men .. ... , * . * . _ 

' ••++!> • ■ tne college dormitories are fireproof 



never, always rising to the occasion o 
taking his own part as well as that of 
others. Personal responsibility, tak- 
ing our own part in taking another'.' 



and equipped with every modern con- 
venience — steam heat, broad fire- 
places, hardwood floors, electric 

lights and bathrooms. "The naturally 
part, was the altruistic attitude in . .., „ . ,.,. . , f. 

f. , <<m , -r, t • * 4.-U - healthful conditions are supplemented 

those days. The Religion of the In- , n ,. . , , „ 

.. . . „ ... „ ... , ... by a private water supply from sprmg- 

articulate, literally without joint, „ , . , Jf „ , 

. „ „ . . . , , , , , fed reservoirs above the college, and 

jellyfish variety, had not yet emerged. . . , _ ■ .. 

>. ,. . . , . . . . , , by an extensive system of sanitation, 

Our religion had joints, a spinal col- 
umn well articulated, and muscular 
Christianity of the "Tom Brown at 
Oxford" type. That, at least, was our 
ideal, however little we may have real- 
ized it. 

Biology, which was challenging th" 
religious beliefs of some, had not yet 
found a place in the college curricu- 



constructed in accordance with the 
best modern practice and officially ap- 
proved by the state authorities." All 
this marks the most vital change 
which has taken place in physical con- 
ditions on college hill in fifty years. 
The Faculty and Classical Course 
The faculty, fifty years ago, num 



lum. Now we observe that it offers bered nine, now twenty-four. Since, 

six courses, and no one objects, "where much is given, much will be 

Strange indeed that the science of life required," we are rather glad, having 

should ever have seemed to threaten survived the unsanitary conditions 



referred to, that we were then rather 
than now. The old days had some 
compensations, even though limited in 
range for mental equipment. We 
wasted no time and made no costly 
mistakes in choosing between the 
Classical and Latin-scientific courses, 
as to which might require least brain 
strain. We all unconsciously sympa- 
thized with the lines of would-be poet 
Prior, and even followed his advice: 

"Be to thy faults a little blind, 
Be to thy virtues very kind, 
But clap a padlock on thy mind." 

The reaction upon self-discovery 

Unclean "Pete," the drawer of tended to self-mastery. Indirect influ- 

water and disposer of slops from up- ences are often greatest. 

per story windows, regardless of pass- Hazlitt once wrote an essay on 

ers-by, was a walking advertisement "The Ignorance of the Learned," and 

of the unsanitary. He was a living declared "that any one who har- 

example of the survival of the un- passed through the regular gradations 

fittest. His daily approach through of a classical education and is not 

the halls was announced by the made a fool by it may consider him 

jingling of keys, strung around his self as having had a very narrow es- 

neck upon some cast-off lazy cord, cape." Thus warned, we were made 

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the foundations of faith! 

Sanitary Conditions 
Sanitary conditions were not all 
that could be desired in the middle 
sixties. It is rather remarkable that 
so many of the alumni of those years 
are still living. All the inside room" 
of the dormitories were dark and 
unventilated. No tub bath was pos- 
sible. Only the Oriskany was avail- 
able for bathing on moonless nights. 
But the worst feature of the unsani 
tary will not bear description. It 
needed the fifth labor of a Hercules to 
turn the water of two rivers to the 
cleansing of the Augean stables. 



wise as to our perils, and were care- 
ful to avoid the lurking dangers of the 
Classical course. 

Presidents Fisher and Brown 
During our day, President Fisher 
resigned, after eight years of fruitful 
service, the endowment of the college 
having increased fourfold. As a re- 
sult, the salaries of the professors 
were increased to $1,500. President 



the minds of men? No answer is nec- 
essary. 

Some of the Professors 

Of all the faculty, Professor Oren 
Root was most feared, when the occa 
sion for fear arose — feared first and 
much loved afterward. No student 
ever tried to "put it over on him" 
more than once. He had a quick and 
extinguishing return, administered 



Fisher had his trials with the mock witn mathematical exactness. We 



scheme at Junior-Ex. He prayed more 
than thrice that this thorn in his flesh 
might pass from him, but without 
result. He was succeeded by Presi- 
dent Brown. Dartmouth thus paid her 
debt to us, contracted by our furnish- 
ing her with her excellent President 
Smith. A large part of President 
Brown's inaugural address was occu- 
pied with a discussion of the compara- 
tive merits of the classics and sci- 
ences in our college curriculum. Thus 
the more than fifty years war was 
on. The present result is about half 
and half, with the Latin-scientific 
course leading the Classical by seven. 
The large freshman class of 1921 has 
thirty Classical and forty-seven Latin- 
scientific — a lead of seventeen. But is 
not the Latin-scientific about half 
Classical? 

The Latest Educational Idea 

Note, in passing, the latest spawn of 
illiberal education. The idea, as re- 
ported, is to eliminate all the for- 
malism, the red tape and adherence 
to tradition, which now retard the 
free development of professors and 
students alike. Modern political sci- 
ence and the current issues of real 
life are the two principal subjects 
upon which attention will be cen- 
tered. The application of scientific 
methods and of unrestricted research 
into the needs of the changing social 
order will at all times animate the 
activities of the new institution. No 
elementary instruction of immature 
students will be undertaken, which 
means the devil take the hindmost, as 
he surely will the foremost. New York 
city, we read, is to see the opening of 
such a college next fall. God save the 
mark of "College." It ought to fly 
a red flag with "Bolsheviki" and "An- 
archist" and "I. W. W." inscribed 
thereon. We are reminded of a day 
when "the earth was without form and 
void and darkness was upon the face 



read that "the fear of the Lord is the 
beginning of wisdom." It was very 
much the same with "Cube Root" in 
our study of mathematics. 
Professor North 

Professor North was loved first and 
feared afterward. His "gentleness 
made him great," and commanded 
respect. His occasional lectures were 
popular, not alone because they gave 
us a recitation off, but for their classic 
beauty and finish — to quote one of his 
frequent expressions, "on golden 
hinges turning." He was the father of 
Necrology in Hamilton college. Be- 
ginning fifty-two years ago with the 
class of 1818, one hundred years ago, 
he brought the dead to life in the 
obituary records of the Alumni, and 
continued to serve in this capacity 
until the end of the college year, June, 
1902, a period extending through thir- 
ty-six years and covering a period of 
eighty-four years. 

Professor Upson 

Professor Upson was most efficient 
in his department. He gave the col- 
lege a country-wide reputation in 
rhetoric and elocution — a reputation 
which, in spite of all competition, 
continues to this day. You may not 
always know a Hamilton man when 
you see him, but you know a Hamil- 
ton man when you hear him. The 
endless drill, drill for the Prize Speak- 
ing and Junior Ex — the whole class — 
and for commencement — the whole 
class — continued year after year, was 
enough of a grind to bring him to an 
early grave. Professor Upson labored 
to conceal labor, to make art, nature. 
"Was Paul a worse preacher for being 
brought up at the feet of Gamaliel ?" 
"Austin, do you hear that?" A stu- 
dent of that name has survived the 
personal application of that question 
for fifty years, and is here today. Only 
the saving health of humor, of which 
he has not a little, could have pro- 



of the deep." Is that time of primeval longed his life. Hamlet's instructions 
chaos and darkness to come again in to the players were often required. 

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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I 
pronounced it to you, trippingly on the 
tongue; but if you mouth it, as many 
of your players do, I had as lief the 
town crier had spoke my lines." 

Professor McHarg 
Professor McHarg — may he rest in 
peace where "the wicked cease from 
troubling," for he had little peace in 
teaching Latin prose and prosey Latin. 
He lacked control in his classroom, 
and "certain rude fellows of the baser 
sort" made his life miserable beyond 
expression. 

Professor Evans 

"Doc" Evans, 

"In fair round belly, with good ca- 
pon lined, 

Full of wise saws and modern in- 
stances," 
professor of law, history, civil polity 
and political economy — now repre- 
sented by four professorships — intro- 
duced us to Blackstone. Many of us 
were content with the introduction 
only. This many-sided professor put 
on the gloves and taught the science 
of boxing to those so inclined, who 
often got a "blood" without making a 
"ten-strike." Thus, as an expounder 
of the constitution, he combined in his 
generous breadth both the mighty 
Webster and the late John L. Sullivan, 
slugger. 

Professor Avery 

"Doc" Avery, professor of chemis- 
try, boasted that he could tell the col 
or of the eyes of every man he re- 
membered to have met. He could 
certainly answer his own questions in 
the classroom better than the student, 
and needed but little encouragement 
to do so. He took the first daguerreo- 
types ever executed this side of New 
York. Harper's magazine of fifty 
years ago speaks of him as one of the 
most witty college professors, and 
tells the following story: 

"A certain student, given to undue 
indulgence, asked the doctor if it 
would not be well, as a matter of 
safety, to analyze some of a certain 
brand of whiskey and test it for 
strychnine. 'No need of that,' said the 
doctor. 'If there was any in it, you 
would have been dead long ago.' " 

Professor Peters and Dr. Goertner 

On April 19, 1868, Christian Henry 
Frederick Peters, Litchfield professor 
of astronomy, announced the discov- 
ery of a new asteroid, the seventh in 



number since his connection with 
Hamilton college. Here forty-eight as- 
teroids were discovered between 1861 
and 1889. Nothing, perhaps, gave a 
wider reputation to the college than 
these discoveries. They were exten- 
sively noticed and discussed, not oniy 
by the scientific journals of our own 
country, but by those of Europe. Al- 
though his name was a fourth part 
Christian, he was not always, in fact, 
even a fourth part Christian in his 
manner of address. The story was 
told that after a night of fruitless 
watching for vagrant asteroids he had 
retired to his room in North College 
to indulge in tired nature's sweet re- 
storer. But some freshman overhead 
was chopping wood and sleep was im- 
possible. Whereupon he went up and 
rapped at the door. When it was 
opened with astonishment at the hon- 
or of the call, he addressed the stu- 
dent thus; "You tamn freshman, 
what for you go chip! chip! chip! 
and keep me from sleep?" 

Dr. Goertner, college pastor and 
more especially solicitor of funds, had 
the compensation of deafness, for 
deaf he was to all refusals, but keen 
and quick to hear all consents. 

Tricks of Memory 

Thus, in the words of Prof. Gay of 
Goucher college, "The sieve of time, 
which we call memory, has a discon- 
certing way of retaining the little and 
releasing the big." 

"It is amusing what things we re- 
member from our teachers; from one 
an anecdote; from another a scrap of 
information; from another a point of 
view; from another a conviction; and, 
sad to relate, from many, nothing. 
They talked to us, let their person- 
alities play upon us, advised us, scold- 
ed, bored, cajoled. Undoubtedly the 
sum of their influence went to make 
us different from what we would have 
been without it; yet often the least 
thing we remember about them is the 
facts they taught us." That elusive 
thing we call personality persists — 
its influence is irresistible — it take" 
the whole of life to solve the personal 
equation, and even then its most po- 
tent factors escape us. 

Men in the Making 

There were men in the making in 
the middle-sixties, representative men 
who have made good in different 
walks of life, men whom the college 
delights to honor, for they have great 



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ly honored the college. Time fails to of a Theological seminary introduce 

call the honor roll of the middle-six- him at a banquet — where he was very 

ties, but we would mention three still much in demand as an after-dinner 

living: speaker — as "No Striker." 

First: Alexander C. Soper, '67, who Third . Qne mQre example of a man 
played 2b in the game of ball already in the making Turning oyer the first 
referred to, and who was one of the volume of „ The Hamilton Lit erary 
stars on the first college nine, also a Monthly „ for May , 67> the Annalist 
High Oration man founder of the came upQn an eggay> ft prize eggay 
Memorial Edward Huntington Math- without douM> gubject> <<The Jew Qf 
ematical Scholarship for Seniors one Dickens> Scott and Shakespeare." In 
of the donors of the Hall of Com- the masterly analysis of j ew i sh c hai- 
mons and of the Soper Gymnasium, a acter> in the compreh ensive grasp of 
generous supporter of the Hamilton Jewigh higtory) in the judicial mind 
College Summer School, contributor which weighg motives as well as acts> 
toward the completion of several col- and putg> with unerring justicej Fagin> 
lege buildings and endowment funds, Igaac and Shylock each in his own 
trustee of the college and one of a place> we gee coming eyentg cagting 
committee to raise $1,000,000 addition- their shadows before them in the per . 
al endowment for the institution. Sure- gon of a gon of Hamilton who was to 
ly his gifts and service speak for the be success i ve iy a distinguished lead- 
man whose modesty is equal to his er of the American Bar> an efficie nt 
munificence— Alexander the Greater. Secret ary of War, a great Secretary of 

Second: The Annalist has in mem- statGj a brilliant Uni ted States Sen- 

ory a very vivid picture of a future ator at will _ too great to be Pres ident 

President of Hamilton College, then a _ and a mogt generous ben efactor of 

freshman, coming down the stairs in Mg alma materj than whom no gon of 

South hall, South college, in undigni- Hamilton> or any other institution, has 

fied haste, interlocked with a preda- borne more modes tly more illustrious 

tory sophomore. It was one of those honorS) Elihu Rootf Valedictorian of 

entangling alliances bound to result tbe Q\ ass f '^4 
disastrously to at least one of the 

parties. The sophomore we have long Lon S ma y the cal1 of the Old Hill, 

since forgotten, but the freshman was whither the classes for more than a 

Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, for hundred years go up to commence- 

twenty-five years the brilliant and up- ment anniversaries and reunions, be 

building President of Hamilton Col- heard b y our widely scattered alumni, 

lege, who, true to his great names, an ever increasing host of the loyal 

both historically associated with sons of Hamilton. Let each son of 

Greek culture, stood stoutly for the Hamilton who would give a good ac- 

preservation and continuance of our count of himself, say with the pious 

classical curriculum. His staying pow- fervor of the captive Jew by the rivers 

ers were even then in evidence, and of Babylon, "If I forget thee, O Ham- 

if you will pardon the pun, he has ilton > let m y ri ^ht hand forget her 

had abundant opportunity to strike cunning! If I do not remember thee, 

back at offending sophomores, al- let m y tongue cleave to the roof of 

though we once heard the president ra y mouth!" 



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